Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sweraną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to ache, fester”). Possibly related to Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬭𐬀 (xᵛara, “wound, hurt”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *sweraną (strong class 4)
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Descendants[edit]
- (Old English: swor; swarnian, swārnian, swornian)
- Old Saxon: *sweran
- Middle Low German: swēren
- Old Dutch: *sweran
- Old High German: sweran; (swero; swerado, swerdo)
References[edit]
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sweran”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 499
- ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SWER-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 494