Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lingwą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Perhaps from Pre-Proto-Germanic *lengʷʰom, from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ-. Compare Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ (“meadow”) from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lanˀgas. The original meaning may have been *“unused land”; Kroonen compares the semantic development of *haiþī (“heath”).^[1] The same semantic pairing exists in modern Irish fraoch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈliŋʷ.ɡʷɑ̃/

Noun

*lingwą n^[1]

(North Germanic) heather, ling

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *lingwą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*lingwą	*lingwō
vocative	*lingwą	*lingwō
accusative	*lingwą	*lingwō
genitive	lingwas, lingwis	*lingwǫ̂
dative	*lingwai	*lingwamaz
instrumental	*lingwō	*lingwamiz

Derived terms

*lungwa-blautaz^[1]
- Proto-Norse:
  - Swedish: lung-blöt (“soaked”) (dialectal)
  - Norwegian: lunge-blaut (“soaked”) (dialectal)

Descendants

Old Norse: lyng
- Icelandic: lyng
- Faroese: lyngur
- Norwegian Bokmål: lyng
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lyng
- Old Swedish: liung
  - Swedish: ljung
- Old Danish: liung
  - Danish: lyng
- Gutnish: ljung
- → Middle English: lyng
  - English: ling
  - Scots: lyng, ling

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*lingwa-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338

[Kroonen-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*lingwa-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338

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