swangar

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *swangr (“heavy”), further origin unknown;[1] according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *sʷenk-, *sunk-, see also Lithuanian sunkus (“difficult, heavy, swollen”).[2]

Adjective

swangar

  1. pregnant

Descendants

  • German: schwanger
  • Yiddish: שווענגערן (shvengern)

References

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “schwanger”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1048”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1048
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