Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/snaggjō

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

Likely from *snagōn (“to crawl, creep”) +‎ *-jō (agent noun suffix), whence also *snagil (“snail”).^[1]^[2] Alternatively reconstructed as *sniggō, from *sniggōn +‎ *-ō (agent noun suffix), iterative to *snīkan (“to crawl, creep”),^[3] or perhaps from *snegan +‎ *-gō (animal suffix), from Proto-Germanic *sneganą (“to crawl, creep”).

Noun

*snaggjō m

snail
Synonym: *snagil

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*snaggjō
Genitive	snaggjini, snaggjan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*snaggjō	*snaggjan
Accusative	*snaggjan	*snaggjan
Genitive	snaggjini, snaggjan	*snaggjanō
Dative	snaggjini, snaggjan	*snaggjum
Instrumental	snaggjini, snaggjan	*snaggjum

Alternative reconstructions

*sneggō^[4]
*sniggō^[3]

Descendants

Old English: *snecga, *snegga
- Middle English: snegge
  - English: sneg, snag (dialectal)
Old Saxon: *sneggio
- Middle Low German: snigge, snicke
  - German Low German: Snigg
  - Low German: snigge
  - Plautdietsch: Schnigj
    - → Dutch: snigge
Old Dutch: *sneggo
- Middle Dutch: snecke (eastern; doubtful)
Old High German: snecco, sneggo
- Middle High German: snëgge, snëcke
  - Alemannic German: Schnägg
  - German: Schnecke
    - → Dutch: snek
    - → Swedish: snäcka
  - Yiddish: שנעק (shnek)

References

^ Torp, Alf (1919) “Snigel”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 670: “Germ. *sneg-, *snag-”
^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “snigel”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 810: “germ. *sneʒ-, *snaʒ-”
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*sniggan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*sneʒʒōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 357

[1] Torp, Alf (1919) “Snigel”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 670: “Germ. *sneg-, *snag-”

[2] Hellquist, Elof (1922) “snigel”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 810: “germ. *sneʒ-, *snaʒ-”

[EDPG-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*sniggan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[4] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*sneʒʒōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 357

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