Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sumpaz

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This Proto-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-Germanic

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Etymology

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Compare *swammaz (sponge, fungus);[1][2] both along with the variant *swambaz may derive from an earlier n-stem *swambô (nom.sg.) ~ *sumppaz (gen.sg.).[3] It is unclear whether both words are of Indo-European origin or wanderworts.[4]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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*sumpaz m

  1. fungus, sponge
    Synonym: *swambaz
  2. swamp, marsh
    Synonyms: *fanją, *sīką, *strōduz, *swambaz

Inflection

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masculine a-stemDeclension of *sumpaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *sumpaz *sumpōz, *sumpōs
vocative *sump *sumpōz, *sumpōs
accusative *sumpą *sumpanz
genitive *sumpas, *sumpis *sumpǫ̂
dative *sumpai *sumpamaz
instrumental *sumpō *sumpamiz
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Descendants

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  • Proto-West Germanic: *sump
  • Old Norse: soppr

References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Sumpf”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1052”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1052
  3. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) “*swambō, *sumppaz ‘sponge, mushroom’?”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 223–225
  4. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zomp2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute