Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/snākō

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *snēkô.[1][2][3]

Noun[edit]

*snākō m

  1. person or thing that crawls, creeps

Inflection[edit]

Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *snākō
Genitive *snākini, *snākan
Singular Plural
Nominative *snākō *snākan
Accusative *snākan *snākan
Genitive *snākini, *snākan *snākanō
Dative *snākini, *snākan *snākum
Instrumental *snākini, *snākan *snākum

Derived terms[edit]

  • *snākijan
    • Old English: *snǣcan

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SNAK-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 442:snǣk-a-z
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*snakōn ~ *snēkaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
  3. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 137:*snēkkan-
  4. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schnake”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891