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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/smeuganą
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Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *smūganą
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *smewk- (“to slip, slide”), *smewg- (“to slip, glide; be slimy”) with -g- instead of expected -h-, likely due to influence from the causative or iterative formations.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmeu̯.ɣɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*smeuganą[1][2]
- to creep, slip through or into
Inflection
Conjugation of *smeuganą (strong class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *smeugō | *smeugaų | — | *smeugai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *smiugizi | *smeugaiz | *smeug | *smeugazai | *smeugaizau |
| 3rd singular | *smiugidi | *smeugai | *smeugadau | *smeugadai | *smeugaidau |
| 1st dual | *smeugōz | *smeugaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *smeugadiz | *smeugaidiz | *smeugadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *smeugamaz | *smeugaim | — | *smeugandai | *smeugaindau |
| 2nd plural | *smiugid | *smeugaid | *smiugid | *smeugandai | *smeugaindau |
| 3rd plural | *smeugandi | *smeugain | *smeugandau | *smeugandai | *smeugaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *smaug | *smugį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *smauht | *smugīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *smaug | *smugī | |||
| 1st dual | *smugū | *smugīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *smugudiz | *smugīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *smugum | *smugīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *smugud | *smugīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *smugun | *smugīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *smeugandz | *smuganaz | |||
Related terms
- *smaugaz
- *smaugijaną
- *smukkōną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *smeugan
- Old English: smūgan
- Middle English: smūwen
- Old Frisian: *smūga
- Old Dutch: *smūgan
- Middle Dutch: *smugen
- Dutch: smuigen
- Middle Dutch: *smugen
- Old High German: *smiugan
- Middle High German: smiugen
- German: schmiegen
- Middle High German: smiugen
- Old English: smūgan
- Old Norse: smjúga
- Icelandic: smjúga
- Faroese: smúgva
- Danish: smyge
- Old Swedish: smiūgha
- Swedish: smyga
- Norwegian Nynorsk: smyga, smyge
- Westrobothnian: smyg, smuug, smeug, smiug
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*smeugan- ~ *smūgan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*smeuʒanan ~ *smūʒanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 354