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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slūkaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Cognate with Old Irish sluccim (“to swallow”) and Ancient Greek λύζω (lúzō, “to hiccup”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsluː.kɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*slūkaną[1]
- to swallow
Inflection
Conjugation of *slūkaną (strong class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *slūkō | *slūkaų | — | *slūkai | *? |
| 2nd singular | *slūkizi | *slūkaiz | *slūk | *slūkazai | *slūkaizau |
| 3rd singular | *slūkidi | *slūkai | *slūkadau | *slūkadai | *slūkaidau |
| 1st dual | *slūkōz | *slūkaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *slūkadiz | *slūkaidiz | *slūkadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *slūkamaz | *slūkaim | — | *slūkandai | *slūkaindau |
| 2nd plural | *slūkid | *slūkaid | *slūkid | *slūkandai | *slūkaindau |
| 3rd plural | *slūkandi | *slūkain | *slūkandau | *slūkandai | *slūkaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *slauk | *slukį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *slauht | *slukīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *slauk | *slukī | |||
| 1st dual | *slukū | *slukīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *slukudiz | *slukīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *slukum | *slukīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *slukud | *slukīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *slukun | *slukīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *slūkandz | *slukanaz | |||
Descendants
- West Germanic: *slūkan
- Old Saxon: slūkan
- Middle Low German: sluken
- → Norwegian:
- → Norwegian Bokmål: sluke
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: sluka, sluke
- → Swedish: sluka
- → Norwegian:
- Middle Low German: sluken
- Old Dutch: slūkan
- Middle Dutch: sluken
- Old Dutch: *slūhan
- Middle Dutch: slūchen
- German: schlauchen
- Middle Dutch: slūchen
- Old Saxon: slūkan
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*slūkanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 352