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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swalwǭ
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly related to Russian солове́й (solovéj, “nightingale”). Possibly related to Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn, “kingfisher”), in which case the corresponding PGmc reconstruction would be *swalhwǭ.
Kroonen compares *sūliz (“column, pillar”) and *sūljan- (“to insert a wedge-shaped piece into an incision”), explaining that the gannet and swallow were named for their wedge-shaped tails. In this case, the original form *suoHl-ueh₂- would have developed into *swalwǭ by Dybo's law.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswɑl.wɔ̃ː/
Noun
*swalwǭ f
- swallow (bird)
Inflection
ōn-stemDeclension of *swalwǭ (ōn-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *swalwǭ | *swalwōniz | |
vocative | *swalwǭ | *swalwōniz | |
accusative | *swalwōnų | *swalwōnunz | |
genitive | *swalwōniz | *swalwōnǫ̂ | |
dative | *swalwōni | *swalwōmaz | |
instrumental | *swalwōnē | *swalwōmiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *swalwā
- Old English: swealwe, swealewe
- Middle English: swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, swhalow, sualow, swalow, swalue, swolwe, swaluwe, swalew, swalugh
- English: swallow
- Scots: swalla, swallae
- Middle English: swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, swhalow, sualow, swalow, swalue, swolwe, swaluwe, swalew, swalugh
- Old Frisian: swale
- North Frisian: swaal, swul, swol
- ⇒ Saterland Frisian: Swoalke, Swoolke
- West Frisian: swel
- Old Saxon: swala
- Middle Low German: swale
- Dutch Low Saxon: swaalfe
- German Low German: Schwaale
- Middle Low German: swale
- Old Dutch: *swalwa, *swalawa
- Middle Dutch: swalwe, swalewe
- Dutch: zwaluw, zwalf, zwavel, zwalver, zwalm
- Afrikaans: swael
- Dutch: zwaluw, zwalf, zwavel, zwalver, zwalm
- Middle Dutch: swalwe, swalewe
- Old High German: swalawa
- Middle High German: swalwe
- Alemannic German: Schwalme
- Swabian: Schwaba
- German: Schwalbe
- → Dutch: schwalbe
- → Silesian: šwalbkowate (compounded with native word)
- Hunsrik: Schwalleb
- Vilamovian: śwojmła
- Alemannic German: Schwalme
- Middle High German: swalwe
- Old English: swealwe, swealewe
- Old Norse: svala
- Icelandic: svala
- Faroese: svala
- Norwegian: svale
- Old Swedish: svala
- Swedish: svala
- Old Danish: swalæ, swolæ
- Danish: svale, sole
- Westrobothnian: svǫlu, sulv, sǫlvu
- Elfdalian: såla
- Gutnish: svale
- Scanian: svala
- → Proto-Samic: *svālfō
- Northern Sami: spálfu
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “swalwon”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 495