Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slappōną

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *slobʰ-néh₂-ti, an iterative verb related to *slēpaną (“to sleep”). The root is reconstructed by Kroonen as *slobʰ- (“to be slack, weak”), and compared with Proto-Slavic *slàbъ (“weak”), dialectal Lithuanian slãbnas, slõbnas (“idem”), Latvian slãbs (“idem”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɑp.pɔː.nɑ̃/

*slappōną^[1]

1. to be slack

The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *slapp- against non-singular *slab-.

• *slapaz

• Proto-West Germanic: *slappōn
  • Old Saxon: *slappōn
    • Middle Low German: slappen
  • Old Dutch: slappon
    • Middle Dutch: slappen
      • Dutch: slappen
  • Old High German: slaffōn
    • Middle High German: slaffen
• Old Norse: slappa, *slapa, *slabba, slafa (only attested in the reflexive 'slafast')
  • Danish: slappe
  • Faroese: slabba
  • Icelandic: slappa
  • Norwegian:

    Norwegian Bokmål: slappe

    Norwegian Nynorsk: slappa, slapa

  • Swedish: slappa