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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”).
Pronunciation
Verb
*swimmaną
- to be unsteady
- to swim; float
Inflection
Note: The past stem might have been later restored to *swumm-, but the forms listed are the etymologically original ones.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*swimman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 501
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*swemmanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 394