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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/swinþ
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *swinþaz.
Adjective
*swinþ
- strong
Inflection
| a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | ||
| Nominative | *swinþ | ||
| Genitive | *swinþas | ||
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *swinþ | *swinþu | *swinþ |
| Accusative | *swinþanā | *swinþā | *swinþ |
| Genitive | *swinþas | *swinþeʀā | *swinþas |
| Dative | *swinþumē | *swinþeʀē | *swinþumē |
| Instrumental | *swinþu | *swinþeʀu | *swinþu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *swinþē | *swinþō | *swinþu |
| Accusative | *swinþā | *swinþā | *swinþu |
| Genitive | *swinþeʀō | *swinþeʀō | *swinþeʀō |
| Dative | *swinþēm, *swinþum | *swinþēm, *swinþum | *swinþēm, *swinþum |
| Instrumental | *swinþēm, *swinþum | *swinþēm, *swinþum | *swinþēm, *swinþum |
Descendants
- Old English: swīþ
- Middle English: swith
- English: swith
- Scots: swith
- Middle English: swith
- Old Frisian: *swīth
- Saterland Frisian: swied
- West Frisian: swiid
- Old Saxon: swīth, *swinth
- Middle Low German: swît, swîde, swinde
- Low German: swied, swinn
- → Polish: szwytki, świtki (“agile, quick, dashing”) (dialectal)
- → Old Ruthenian: швыдкїй (švydkij) (dialectal)
- Belarusian: швы́дкі (švýdki), швы́дкій (švýdkij) (dialectal)
- Rusyn: швыткы́й (švŷtkŷ́j)
- Pannonian Rusyn: швидки́ (švydký)
- Ukrainian: швидки́й (švydkýj)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: шми́тки́й (šmýtkýj) (dialectal)[1]
- →? Polish: szmytki (dialectal)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: шми́тки́й (šmýtkýj) (dialectal)[1]
- → Russian: швы́дкий (švýdkij) (dialectal)
- → Old Ruthenian: швыдкїй (švydkij) (dialectal)
- Middle Low German: swît, swîde, swinde
- Old Dutch: *swīth, *swinth (in placenames)
- Middle Dutch: swîde, swinde
- Dutch: swiet, zwiej (dialectal)
- Middle Dutch: swîde, swinde
- Old High German: *swind (in personal names)
- Middle High German: swinde, swint
- ⇒ Middle High German: geswinde
- German: geschwind
- → Dutch: gezwind
- Luxembourgish: geschwënn
- German: geschwind
- ⇒ Middle High German: geswinde
- Middle High German: swinde, swint
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “шмиткий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови: у 7 т. [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 7 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 447