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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swait-
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *swoydo-, from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“to sweat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswɑi̯.tɑz/ (masculine a-stem)
- IPA(key): /ˈswɑi̯.tɑ̃/ (neuter a-stem)
- IPA(key): /ˈswɑi̯.tɔːː/ (masculine n-stem)
Noun
*swait- m or n
- sweat; blood
Inflection
| masculine a-stemDeclension of *swaitaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *swaitaz | *swaitōz, *swaitōs | |
| vocative | *swait | *swaitōz, *swaitōs | |
| accusative | *swaitą | *swaitanz | |
| genitive | *swaitas, *swaitis | *swaitǫ̂ | |
| dative | *swaitai | *swaitamaz | |
| instrumental | *swaitō | *swaitamiz | |
| neuter a-stemDeclension of *swaitą (neuter a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *swaitą | *swaitō | |
| vocative | *swaitą | *swaitō | |
| accusative | *swaitą | *swaitō | |
| genitive | *swaitas, *swaitis | *swaitǫ̂ | |
| dative | *swaitai | *swaitamaz | |
| instrumental | *swaitō | *swaitamiz | |
| masculine an-stemDeclension of *swaitô (masculine an-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *swaitô | *swaitaniz | |
| vocative | *swaitô | *swaitaniz | |
| accusative | *swaitanų | *swaitanunz | |
| genitive | *swaitiniz | *swaitanǫ̂ | |
| dative | *swaitini | *swaitammaz | |
| instrumental | *swaitinē | *swaitammiz | |
Derived terms
- *swaitaną
- *swaitijaną
Related terms
- *switjaną
Descendants
- Old English: swāt (< *swaitą)
- Middle English: swate, swote, swot, swete, swet (< under influence from the verb)
- Scots: swate, swait, swete, sweit
- English: sweat
- → Esperanto: ŝvito
- English: swot
- Middle English: swate, swote, swot, swete, swet (< under influence from the verb)
- Old Frisian: swēt (< *swaitaz)
- North Frisian: swiet
- Saterland Frisian: Sweet n
- West Frisian: swit
- Old Saxon: swēt
- Middle Low German: swēt
- German Low German: Sweet
- Middle Low German: swēt
- Old Dutch: *swēt
- Middle Dutch: swêet
- Dutch: zweet
- Limburgish: zweit
- Middle Dutch: swêet
- Old High German: sweiz (< *swaitaz)
- Middle High German: sweiz
- German: Schweiß
- Luxembourgish: Schweess
- Vilamovian: śwaas
- Middle High German: sweiz
- Old Norse: sveiti (< *swaitô)
- Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
- Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sveite, sveitte
- Norwegian Bokmål: svette
- Westrobothnian: sveit, svait, swett, schweitt, schwaitt
- Old Swedish: svēter, svetter; svēte
- Swedish: svett
- Danish: sved
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN