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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/saipǭ
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, dribble, strain, trickle”). Cognate with Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑi̯.põː/
Noun
*saipǭ f
- (West Germanic) soap
- Synonyms: *laugō, *lauþrą
Inflection
ōn-stemDeclension of *saipǭ (ōn-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *saipǭ | *saipōniz | |
vocative | *saipǭ | *saipōniz | |
accusative | *saipōnų | *saipōnunz | |
genitive | *saipōniz | *saipōnǫ̂ | |
dative | *saipōni | *saipōmaz | |
instrumental | *saipōnē | *saipōmiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *saipā
- Old English: sāpe
- Middle English: sope, sape
- English: soap (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: saip, sape
- → Middle Irish: sóp
- → Old Norse: sápa
- Icelandic: sápa
- Faroese: sápa
- Norwegian: såpa, såpe
- → Danish: såpe
- Norwegian Bokmål: såpe
- → Danish: såpe
- Old Swedish: sāpa
- Swedish: såpa
- → Finnish: suopa, soopa
- Swedish: såpa
- Middle English: sope, sape
- Old Frisian: *sēpe
- Saterland Frisian: Seepe
- West Frisian: sjippe
- Old Saxon: *sēpa
- Middle Low German: sēpe, seipe
- German Low German: Seep
- Dutch Low Saxon: ziepe, zaip, zaipe, zeeip, zepe, zeip, ziep, zaibe, zeep
- → Estonian: seep
- → Danish: sæbe
- Norwegian Bokmål: sæbe, sæpe, sepe
- → Latvian: ziepes
- Middle Low German: sēpe, seipe
- Old Dutch: *sēpa, *seipa
- Middle Dutch: sêpe, seipe
- Dutch: zeep
- Afrikaans: seep
- → Xhosa: isepha
- → Zulu: insipho
- Berbice Creole Dutch: sepu
- Skepi Creole Dutch: sepu
- → Akawaio: seepoo, sawana
- → Pemon: seepoo, sawana
- → Arawak: sêpo
- Afrikaans: seep
- Limburgish: zeip
- Dutch: zeep
- Middle Dutch: sêpe, seipe
- Old High German: seipfa, seiffa, seifa
- Middle High German: seife
- Alemannic German: Seif, Seife, Seifi, Seipfe, Soapfe
- Swabian: Soif
- Bavarian: Soaffa, Soaf, safe
- Central Franconian: Seef, Sääf, Seif
- Hunsrik: Seif
- Luxembourgish: Seef
- East Central German:
- Vilamovian: zaof
- East Franconian: Saafe
- German: Seife
- Rhine Franconian: Saaf, Saaif, Sääf, Sääif, Seef
- Frankfurterisch: [saːf]
- Pennsylvania German: Seef
- Yiddish: זייף (zeyf)
- Alemannic German: Seif, Seife, Seifi, Seipfe, Soapfe
- Middle High German: seife
- Old English: sāpe
- Finnic:
- → Finnish: saippua
- → Ingrian: saippu
- → Northern Sami: sáibu
- → Finnish: saippua
- → Latin: sāpō (see there for further descendants)