Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sūftu
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *sūpan (“to slurp, guzzle”) + *-þu.
Noun
edit*sūftu m
Inflection
editu-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *sūftu | |
Genitive | *sūftō | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *sūftu | *sūftiwi, *sūftō |
Accusative | *sūftu | *sūftū |
Genitive | *sūftō | *sūftiwō |
Dative | *sūftiwi, *sūftō | *sūftum |
Instrumental | *sūftu | *sūftum |
Related terms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- Old Saxon: *sūft
- Middle Low German: sucht
- Old Dutch: *suft
- Old High German: *sūft
- Middle High German: sûft
Further reading
edit- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “seufzen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 670