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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain with several theories:
- from *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”) + *-alō, in connection to the pagan Germanic belief in sacred lakes inhabited by the dead and the unborn, compare the Sami borrowing from Germanic, *Sāvjë, a realm of the dead believed to be under special double-bottomed lakes,
- from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂i-wl̥ ~ *sh₂i-wéns, possibly cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *séiˀlāˀ (“strength, force; soul”), Latin saevus (“fierce”), Proto-Celtic *saitlom (“life, age”), Latin saeculum (“generation, lifetime”), perhaps either from *seh₂y- (“to bind”) or homonym *seh₂y- (“rage, fury”), making it possibly again related to *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”) (the connection to the Balto-Slavic is tentatively favored by Kroonen),
- borrowed from a substrate,
- or from *s(w)ai (“self”), from Proto-Indo-European *swoy- (“idem”), + *walō (“choice, will”), from Proto-Indo-European *wolh₁-eh₂, from *welh₁- (“to choose, want”).
Pronunciation
Noun
*saiwalō f
- soul, life force
Inflection
Declension of *saiwalō (ō-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*saiwalō
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*saiwalôz
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vocative
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*saiwalō
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*saiwalôz
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accusative
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*saiwalǭ
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*saiwalōz
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genitive
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*saiwalōz
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*saiwalǫ̂
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dative
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*saiwalōi
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*saiwalōmaz
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instrumental
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*saiwalō
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*saiwalōmiz
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*saiwalō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 314
- ^ Weisweiler, Josef (1940) “Seele und See”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 41, →DOI, pages 25–55
- ^ Walde, Alois (1923) Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 12, page 382
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*saiwalō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 423
- ^ Mezger, Fritz (1968) “Gotisch saiwala ‘Seele’”, in Kuhns Zeitschrift (in German), volume 82, →JSTOR, page 382