Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sleutan

This Proto-West 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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown;^[1] suggested to possibly be from a metathesized s-mobile form of Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“hook, peg, latch”), and cognate with Latin claudō (“to close”).^[2]

Verb

*sleutan

to bolt, lock

Inflection

Strong class 2
Infinitive	*sleutan
1st sg. past	*slaut
3rd pl. past	*slutun
Past ptcple	*slotan
Infinitive	*sleutan
Genitive infin.	*sleutannjas
Dative infin.	*sleutannjē
Instrum. infin.	*sleutannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*sleutu	*slaut
2nd singular	*sliutiʀi	*slutī
3rd singular	*sliutidi	*slaut
1st plural	*sleutum	*slutum
2nd plural	*sliutid	*slutud
3rd plural	*sleutand	*slutun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*sleutē	*slutī
2nd singular	*sleutēs	*slutī
3rd singular	*sleutē	*slutī
1st plural	*sleutēm	*slutīm
2nd plural	*sleutēþ	*slutīd
3rd plural	*sleutēn	*slutīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*sliut
Plural	*sliutid
	Present	Past
Participle	*sleutandī	*slotan

Related terms

Descendants

Old Frisian: slūta
- Saterland Frisian: sluute, slute
- West Frisian: slute
Old Saxon: slūtan (in combination)
- Middle Low German: slûten
  - German Low German: sluten, slüten
  - → Danish: slutte
    - Norwegian Bokmål: slutte
  - → Swedish: sluta
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: slutte, slutta
Old Dutch: *slūtan
- Middle Dutch: sluten
  - Dutch: sluiten
    - Afrikaans: sluit
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: slokti
    - → Saramaccan: sòotó
  - Limburgish: sloete
Old High German: sliozan
- Middle High German: sliezen
  - German: schließen
  - Luxembourgish: schléissen
  - Yiddish: שליסן (shlisn)

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*sleutan- ~ *slūtan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “klēu- (auch klěu-?) und klāu-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 604-605

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*sleutan- ~ *slūtan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454

[2] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “klēu- (auch klěu-?) und klāu-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 604-605

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