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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slībaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”), the same source as *slīmą (“slime”) and *līmaz (“glue, clay, lime”).[1] For the semantics, compare Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (“to whet, sharpen”), Old High German slīman (“to make smooth”), Proto-Celtic *limāti (“to polish, sharpen”) and Latin līma (“carpenter's file”), from extensions of the same root.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsliː.βɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*slībaną
- (West Germanic) to split
Inflection
Conjugation of *slībaną (strong class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *slībō | *slībaų | — | *slībai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *slībizi | *slībaiz | *slīb | *slībazai | *slībaizau |
| 3rd singular | *slībidi | *slībai | *slībadau | *slībadai | *slībaidau |
| 1st dual | *slībōz | *slībaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *slībadiz | *slībaidiz | *slībadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *slībamaz | *slībaim | — | *slībandai | *slībaindau |
| 2nd plural | *slībid | *slībaid | *slībid | *slībandai | *slībaindau |
| 3rd plural | *slībandi | *slībain | *slībandau | *slībandai | *slībaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *slaib | *slibį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *slaift | *slibīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *slaib | *slibī | |||
| 1st dual | *slibū | *slibīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *slibudiz | *slibīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *slibum | *slibīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *slibud | *slibīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *slibun | *slibīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *slībandz | *slibanaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *slīban
- Old English: slīfan
- Middle English: sliven
- Scots: slive
- English: slive
- Middle English: sliven
- Old English: slīfan
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slijpen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*lim-ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 239