svai̯ną

See also: svaiņa and svaińă

Polabian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svȋnę. By surface analysis, svai̯ńă +‎ -ą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /svai̯ˈnã/

Noun

svai̯ną n

1. pig, hog

   tau̯cnă svai̯ną ― fatted pig

   dai̯vă svai̯ną ― wild pig

   • (Can we date this quote?), Anonymous glossary, quoted in Collectanea Etymologica, Hanover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, published 1717:

     schweinang

     [svai̯ną]

     pig

Related terms

nouns

• svai̯ńă f

 

adjective

• svai̯nevă
• svai̯nĕ

 

References

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Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “svainą”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co

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Polański, Kazimierz (1993) “svai̯ną”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 5 (sahi – ťüzǝc), Warszawa: Energeia, page 790

• Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Sweinang”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1127