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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slītaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsliː.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*slītaną[1]
- to tear apart
Inflection
Conjugation of *slītaną (strong class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *slītō | *slītaų | — | *slītai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *slītizi | *slītaiz | *slīt | *slītazai | *slītaizau |
| 3rd singular | *slītidi | *slītai | *slītadau | *slītadai | *slītaidau |
| 1st dual | *slītōz | *slītaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *slītadiz | *slītaidiz | *slītadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *slītamaz | *slītaim | — | *slītandai | *slītaindau |
| 2nd plural | *slītid | *slītaid | *slītid | *slītandai | *slītaindau |
| 3rd plural | *slītandi | *slītain | *slītandau | *slītandai | *slītaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *slait | *slitį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *slaist | *slitīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *slait | *slitī | |||
| 1st dual | *slitū | *slitīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *slitudiz | *slitīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *slitum | *slitīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *slitud | *slitīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *slitun | *slitīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *slītandz | *slitanaz | |||
Derived terms
- *slitjaną
- *slaitijaną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *slītan
- Old English: slītan
- Middle English: sliten
- English: slit, slite
- Scots: slite, slyte
- Middle English: sliten
- Old Frisian: slīta
- North Frisian: slitten
- Saterland Frisian: sliete
- West Frisian: slite
- Old Saxon: slītan
- Middle Low German: slîten
- German Low German: slieten
- Middle Low German: slîten
- Old Dutch: *slītan
- Middle Dutch: sliten
- Dutch: slijten
- Limburgish: sliete
- Middle Dutch: sliten
- Old High German: slīzan
- Middle High German: slīzen
- German: schleißen
- Luxembourgish: schläissen
- Middle High German: slīzen
- → Old French: esclicer [1080 CE] (see there for further descendants)
- Old English: slītan
- Old Norse: slíta
- Icelandic: slíta
- Faroese: slíta
- Norwegian Bokmål: slite
- Norwegian Nynorsk: slita, slite
- Old Swedish: slīta
- Swedish: slita
- Danish: slide
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*slītanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351