Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sugu
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sugō[1] or *suwō, derived from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig, hog, swine”), with the West Germanic *-g- arising either:
- along with the Germanic cognates Swedish sugga, Elfdalian sugga and Norwegian sugge (< Old Norse *suggva), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-kéh₂, with a (diminutive?) suffix similar to those in Proto-Celtic *sukkos and Proto-Indo-Iranian *suHkás,[1] but this does not easily explain the short root vowel (if a laryngeal is to be reconstructed) and North Germanic gemination;[2]
- sporadically from *w between the high vowels *u (either already in Proto-Germanic from accusative *suwun, or in Proto-West Germanic *suwu), with the North Germanic cognates independently undergoing a parallel development via Holtzmann's law.[3]
Noun
*sugu f
Inflection
| ō-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *sugu | |
| Genitive | *sogā | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *sugu | *sogō |
| Accusative | *sogā | *sogā |
| Genitive | *sogā | *sogō |
| Dative | *sugē | *sogōm, *sugum |
| Instrumental | *sugu | *sogōm, *sugum |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*suʒō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 385
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) “Neuniederländisch zeug ‚Sau‘ und spugen ‚speien‘: zwei Beispiele der westgermanischen Velarisierung? [Modern Dutch zeug ‘pig’ and spugen ‘spit’: two examples of West Germanic velarization?]”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik [Amsterdam Contributions to Older Germanic Studies] (in German), volume 67, Amsterdam: Rodopi N.V. Koninklijke Brill, →ISSN, section 3, pages 149–161
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sū-, *suw-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 490