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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/snīwaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsniː.wɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*snīwaną[1][2]
- to snow
Inflection
Conjugation of *snīwaną (strong class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *snīwō | *snīwaų | — | *snīwai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *snīwizi | *snīwaiz | *snīw | *snīwazai | *snīwaizau |
| 3rd singular | *snīwidi | *snīwai | *snīwadau | *snīwadai | *snīwaidau |
| 1st dual | *snīwōz | *snīwaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *snīwadiz | *snīwaidiz | *snīwadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *snīwamaz | *snīwaim | — | *snīwandai | *snīwaindau |
| 2nd plural | *snīwid | *snīwaid | *snīwid | *snīwandai | *snīwaindau |
| 3rd plural | *snīwandi | *snīwain | *snīwandau | *snīwandai | *snīwaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *snaiw | *sniwį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *snaiwt | *sniwīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *snaiw | *sniwī | |||
| 1st dual | *sniwū | *sniwīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *sniwudiz | *sniwīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *sniwum | *sniwīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *sniwud | *sniwīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *sniwun | *sniwīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *snīwandz | *sniwanaz | |||
Related terms
- *snaiwaz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *snīwan
- Old English: snīwan
- Middle English: snewen, sneuwen, snew, snewe, sniwe
- English: snew
- Middle English: snewen, sneuwen, snew, snewe, sniwe
- Old Frisian: *snīa
- West Frisian: snije
- Old Saxon: *snīwan
- Middle Low German: snîen
- Low German: snien
- Plautdietsch: schnieen
- Middle Low German: snîen
- Old Dutch: *snīwan
- Middle Dutch: snuwen
- Dutch: snuwen
- Limburgish: snieë, snieëje
- Middle Dutch: snuwen
- Old High German: snīwan
- Middle High German: snīen, snīwen
- Bavarian: schneibn
- Cimbrian: snaiban, snaim
- German: schneien
- Luxembourgish: schneien
- Yiddish: שנייען (shneyen)
- Middle High German: snīen, snīwen
- Old English: snīwan
- Old Norse: snjóva, snæva, snjáva
- Icelandic: snjóa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: snø, snøa, snjova
- Norwegian: snya, snjóge (dialectal)
- Norwegian Bokmål: snø
- Swedish: snö
- Danish: sne
- Westrobothnian: snög, snjööd
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*snīwan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 462
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*snīʒwanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 358