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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Compare *swammaz (“sponge, fungus”); both along with the variant *swambaz may derive from an earlier n-stem *swambô (nom.sg.) ~ *sumppaz (gen.sg.). It is unclear whether both words are of Indo-European origin or wanderworts.
Pronunciation
Noun
*sumpaz m
- fungus, sponge
- Synonym: *swambaz
- swamp, marsh
- Synonyms: *fanją, *sīką, *strōduz, *swambaz
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *sumpaz (masculine a-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*sumpaz
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*sumpōz, *sumpōs
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vocative
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*sump
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*sumpōz, *sumpōs
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accusative
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*sumpą
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*sumpanz
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genitive
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*sumpas, *sumpis
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*sumpǫ̂
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dative
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*sumpai
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*sumpamaz
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instrumental
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*sumpō
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*sumpamiz
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Descendants
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Sumpf”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1052”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1052
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) “*swambō, *sumppaz ‘sponge, mushroom’?”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 223–225
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zomp2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute