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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swarōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *swarō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswɑr.ɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*swarōną
- To answer; to give a response.
Inflection
Conjugation of *swarōną (weak class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *swarō | *swarǭ | — | *swarōi | *? |
| 2nd singular | *swarōsi | *swarōs | *swarō | *swarōsai | *swarōsau |
| 3rd singular | *swarōþi | *swarō | *swarōþau | *swarōþai | *swarōþau |
| 1st dual | *swarōs | *swarōw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *swarōþiz | *swarōþiz | *swarōþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *swarōmaz | *swarōm | — | *swarōnþai | *swarōnþau |
| 2nd plural | *swarōþ | *swarōþ | *swarōþ | *swarōnþai | *swarōnþau |
| 3rd plural | *swarōnþi | *swarōn | *swarōnþau | *swarōnþai | *swarōnþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *swarōdǭ | *swarōdēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *swarōdēz | *swarōdēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *swarōdē | *swarōdēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *swarōdēdū | *swarōdēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *swarōdēdudiz | *swarōdēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *swarōdēdum | *swarōdēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *swarōdēdud | *swarōdēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *swarōdēdun | *swarōdēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *swarōndz | *swarōdaz | |||
Descendants
- Old English: *swarian (attested in andswarian)
- Middle English: swaren
- Old Norse: svara
- Icelandic: svara
- Faroese: svara
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svare
- Nynorsk: svara, svare
- Swedish: svara
- Danish: svare