Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swaitijaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *swait- (“sweat”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
- to sweat
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *swaitijaną (weak class 1)
Related terms edit
Descendants 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