Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swaitijaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *swait- (“sweat”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit- to sweat
Inflection
editConjugation of *swaitijaną (weak class 1)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *swaitijan
- Old Norse: sveita (only attested as reflexive sveitask)
References
edit- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*swaita-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 494: “*swaitjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*swaitjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390