Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/smukkōną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *smuknéh₂-, iterative formation to *smeuganą (“to creep, slip into”). Cognate with Lithuanian smùkti (“to slide, slip”), Czech smeknouti (“to strip”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmuk.kɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*smukkōną
Inflection
The original paradigm was made up of singular *smukk- against non-singular *smug-. This allowed for later analogical leveling throughout the dialects.
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *smukkō | *smukkǭ | — | *smukkōi | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *smukkōsi | *smukkōs | *smukkō | *smukkōsai | *smukkōsau | |
| 3rd singular | *smukkōþi | *smukkō | *smukkōþau | *smukkōþai | *smukkōþau | |
| 1st dual | *smukkōs | *smukkōw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *smukkōþiz | *smukkōþiz | *smukkōþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *smukkōmaz | *smukkōm | — | *smukkōnþai | *smukkōnþau | |
| 2nd plural | *smukkōþ | *smukkōþ | *smukkōþ | *smukkōnþai | *smukkōnþau | |
| 3rd plural | *smukkōnþi | *smukkōn | *smukkōnþau | *smukkōnþai | *smukkōnþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *smukkōdǭ | *smukkōdēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *smukkōdēz | *smukkōdēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *smukkōdē | *smukkōdēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *smukkōdēdū | *smukkōdēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *smukkōdēdudiz | *smukkōdēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *smukkōdēdum | *smukkōdēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *smukkōdēdud | *smukkōdēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *smukkōdēdun | *smukkōdēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *smukkōndz | *smukkōdaz | ||||
Descendants
- (Dutch: smokkelen) (with secondary frequentative suffix)
- Old Norse: *smokka, *smugga
- Faroese: smokka
- Norwegian: smugga
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*smukk/gōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460