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Reconstruction:Old Norse/sinkva
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- søkkva – West Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to sink, to drop”). Compare Old English sincan, Old Frisian sinka, Old Saxon sinkan, Old High German sinkan, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌵𐌰𐌽 (sigqan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsĩŋkwa/, /ˈsĩŋkwɑ/
Verb
*sinkva (singular past indicative sank, plural past indicative sunku, past participle sunkinn) (Old East Norse)
- (intransitive) to sink
Related terms
- *sænkja (transitive)
Descendants
- Westrobothnian: sjoonk
- Old Swedish: siunka
- Swedish: sjunka
- Old Danish: siunkæ
- Danish: synke
- Norwegian Bokmål: synke
- Scanian: sjønka, sjonka, sækka, sjokka
- Danish: synke
- Gutnish: sjunke, sinke