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Old Prussian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źmṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling, man”). Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ, Latin homō, Old Norse gumi.
Noun
smoy
- man
c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary (in Middle High German), page 173, line 187:
Synonyms
Further reading
- G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “smoy”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 170
- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1997) “smoy”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume 4, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, pages 132–134