Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/snaggjō

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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]

Likely from *snagōn (“to crawl, creep”) +‎ *-jō (agent noun suffix), whence also *snagil (“snail”).[1][2] Alternatively reconstructed as *sniggō, from *sniggōn +‎ *-ō (agent noun suffix), iterative to *snīkan (“to crawl, creep”),[3] or perhaps from *snegan +‎ *-gō (animal suffix), from Proto-Germanic *sneganą (“to crawl, creep”).

Noun[edit]

*snaggjō m

  1. snail
    Synonym: *snagil

Inflection[edit]

Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *snaggjō
Genitive *snaggjini, *snaggjan
Singular Plural
Nominative *snaggjō *snaggjan
Accusative *snaggjan *snaggjan
Genitive *snaggjini, *snaggjan *snaggjanō
Dative *snaggjini, *snaggjan *snaggjum
Instrumental *snaggjini, *snaggjan *snaggjum

Alternative reconstructions[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Torp, Alf (1919) “Snigel”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 670: “Germ. *sneg-, *snag-”
  2. ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “snigel”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 810: “germ. *sneʒ-, *snaʒ-”
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sniggan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  4. ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*sneʒʒōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[2], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 357
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