Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swaitijaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *swait- (“sweat”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to sweat
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *swaitijaną (weak class 1)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *swaitijan
- Old Norse: sveita (only attested as reflexive sveitask)
References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*swaita-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 494: “*swaitjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*swaitjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390