swangar

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *swangr (“heavy”), further origin unknown; according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *sʷenk-, *sunk-, see also Lithuanian sunkus (“difficult, heavy, swollen”).[1]

Adjective

swangar

  1. pregnant

Descendants

  • German: schwanger
  • Yiddish: שווענגערן (shvengern)

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1048”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1048
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