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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slaihǭ
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Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *slaihwaz, *slaihwǭ[1][2]
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“blueish”).
Noun
*slaihǭ f[2][3][4]
- sloe
Inflection
| ōn-stemDeclension of *slaihǭ (ōn-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *slaihǭ | *slaihōniz | |
| vocative | *slaihǭ | *slaihōniz | |
| accusative | *slaihōnų | *slaihōnunz | |
| genitive | *slaihōniz | *slaihōnǫ̂ | |
| dative | *slaihōni | *slaihōmaz | |
| instrumental | *slaihōnē | *slaihōmiz | |
Descendants
- Old English: slāh
- English: sloe
- Middle Low German: slē
- Middle Dutch: sleeu
- Dutch: slee, (dialectal) sleeuw
- Old High German: slēha, slēwа
- German: Schlehe
- Danish: slaa (“sloe-thorn”)
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*slaixwōn ~ *slaixwaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, ~ *slaixwaz/mode/1up page 348-349
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “līvidus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 347
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 231
- Nussbaum, Alan J. (1997), “The 'Saussure Effect' in Latin and Italic”, in Lubotsky, Alexander, editor, Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in honor of R.S.P. Beekes, Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 199