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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unknown; possibly from Proto-Germanic *besmô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰés-mō ~ *bʰs-m̥nés, from *bʰes- (“to rub, grind”) + *-mō, whence Ancient Greek ψάω (psáō, “to rub”), Sanskrit प्साति (psāti, “to chew”),[1] or perhaps from earlier *bitsmô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéys-mō ~ *bʰis-m̥nés, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to split”) + *-mō[2].
Noun
*besmō m[2][3]
- branch, rod
- broom
Inflection
Masculine an-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*besmō
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Genitive
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*bismini, *besman
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*besmō
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*besman
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Accusative
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*besman
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*besman
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Genitive
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*bismini, *besman
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*besmanō
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Dative
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*bismini, *besman
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*besmum
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Instrumental
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*bismini, *besman
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*besmum
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Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Besen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 78: “wg. *besmōn-”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Besen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- ^ Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “besma”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 41-42: “PGMC: *besm-an- (PWGmc.)”