Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slīpaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1][2] Cognate with Cornish lym, Ancient Greek ὀλιβρός (olibrós, “smooth”), Latin limax.
Verb
edit*slīpaną[3]
- to slide
- (West Germanic) to grind
- (West Germanic) to make smooth; sharpen
Inflection
editConjugation of *slīpaną (strong class 1)
Related terms
edit- *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”)
Descendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *slīpan
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “lim-a”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 239
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1872”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1872
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*slīpanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351