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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slīpaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1][2] Cognate with Cornish lym, Ancient Greek ὀλιβρός (olibrós, “smooth”), Latin limax.
Verb
*slīpaną[3]
- to slide
- (West Germanic) to grind
- (West Germanic) to make smooth; sharpen
Inflection
Conjugation of *slīpaną (strong class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *slīpō | *slīpaų | — | *slīpai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *slīpizi | *slīpaiz | *slīp | *slīpazai | *slīpaizau |
| 3rd singular | *slīpidi | *slīpai | *slīpadau | *slīpadai | *slīpaidau |
| 1st dual | *slīpōz | *slīpaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *slīpadiz | *slīpaidiz | *slīpadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *slīpamaz | *slīpaim | — | *slīpandai | *slīpaindau |
| 2nd plural | *slīpid | *slīpaid | *slīpid | *slīpandai | *slīpaindau |
| 3rd plural | *slīpandi | *slīpain | *slīpandau | *slīpandai | *slīpaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *slaip | *slipį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *slaift | *slipīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *slaip | *slipī | |||
| 1st dual | *slipū | *slipīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *slipudiz | *slipīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *slipum | *slipīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *slipud | *slipīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *slipun | *slipīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *slīpandz | *slipanaz | |||
Related terms
- *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *slīpan
- Old Frisian: slīpa
- West Frisian: slypje
- Old Saxon: *slīpan
- Middle Low German: slîpen
- Low German: sliepen
- → Swedish: slipa
- → Finnish: liipata
- Middle Low German: slîpen
- Old Dutch: *slīpan
- Middle Dutch: slipen
- Dutch: slijpen
- Limburgish: sliepe
- Middle Dutch: slipen
- Old High German: slīfan
- German: schleifen
- Old Frisian: slīpa
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “lim-a”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 239
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1872
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*slīpanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351