Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/snēkô
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom a vṛddhi derivative of *sneganą (“to crawl, sneak”) + *-ô (agent suffix). Kroonen suggests an original *snēgô ~ *snakkaz paradigm, making Proto-West Germanic *snakō a parallel formation.[1]
Noun
edit*snēkô m[1]
Inflection
editmasculine an-stemDeclension of *snēkô (masculine an-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *snēkô | *snēkaniz | |
vocative | *snēkô | *snēkaniz | |
accusative | *snēkanų | *snēkanunz | |
genitive | *snēkiniz | *snēkanǫ̂ | |
dative | *snēkini | *snēkammaz | |
instrumental | *snēkinē | *snēkammiz |
Alternative reconstructions
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 137: “*snēkkan-”
- ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SNAK-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 442: “snǣk-a-z”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*snēkaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
- ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “snok”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary][2] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 812: “urnord. *snākuʀ”
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schnake”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891