Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/seukaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Assuming that Proto-Germanic *seuk- is back-formed from the zero-grade in *sukkōną, Kroonen reconstructs a pre-Germanic *sk-néh₂- and compares Latin sēgnis (“lazy, slow”), Ancient Greek ἦκα (êka, “quietly, slowly”), and Old Irish socht (“silence”),[1] but a precise Proto-Indo-European root for these words is lacking.
Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sēwg- (“ill, grievous, sad”),[2] also adding Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “to waste away, wither”), but Kroonen rejects comparisons with the Armenian word.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*seukaną[3]
- (East Germanic) to be sick
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *seukaną (strong class 2)
Related terms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*suk(k)ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 491
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 915, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 915
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*seukan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 434