Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sūftu

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

From *sūpan (“to slurp, guzzle”) +‎ *-þu.

Noun

*sūftu m

1. sigh, lamentation

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sūftu
Genitive	*sūftō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sūftu	*sūftiwi, *sūftō
Accusative	*sūftu	*sūftū
Genitive	*sūftō	*sūftiwō
Dative	*sūftiwi, *sūftō	*sūftum
Instrumental	*sūftu	*sūftum

Related terms

• *seufōn
  • Old English: sēofian, sefian, seafian, sifian, syfian
• *soppōn

Derived terms

• *sūftōn

Descendants

• Old Saxon: *sūft
  • Middle Low German: sucht
• Old Dutch: *suft
  • Middle Dutch: sucht, socht
    • Dutch: zucht
• Old High German: *sūft
  • Middle High German: sûft

Further reading

• Friedrich Kluge (1989) “seufzen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 670