Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/smaitijaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *smītaną (“to cast, hit, smear”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmɑi̯.ti.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*smaitijaną[1]
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *smaitijō | *smaitijaų | — | *smaitijai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *smaitīsi | *smaitijais | *smaitī | *smaitijasai | *smaitijaisau | |
| 3rd singular | *smaitīþi | *smaitijai | *smaitijaþau | *smaitijaþai | *smaitijaiþau | |
| 1st dual | *smaitijōs | *smaitijaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *smaitijaþiz | *smaitijaiþiz | *smaitijaþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *smaitijamaz | *smaitijaim | — | *smaitijanþai | *smaitijainþau | |
| 2nd plural | *smaitīþ | *smaitijaiþ | *smaitīþ | *smaitijanþai | *smaitijainþau | |
| 3rd plural | *smaitijanþi | *smaitijain | *smaitijanþau | *smaitijanþai | *smaitijainþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *smaitidǭ | *smaitidēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *smaitidēz | *smaitidēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *smaitidē | *smaitidēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *smaitidēdū | *smaitidēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *smaitidēdudiz | *smaitidēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *smaitidēdum | *smaitidēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *smaitidēdud | *smaitidēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *smaitidēdun | *smaitidēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *smaitijandz | *smaitidaz | ||||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *smaitijan
- Old High German: *smeizen
- Middle High German: smeizen
- ⇒ Old High German: bismeizen
- Old High German: *smeizen
- Old Norse: *smeita
- Faroese: smeitast
- Norwegian Nynorsk: smeita, smeite
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*smītan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 459: “*smaitjan-”