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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/snagil

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

Etymology

Likely inherited from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz, whence Old Norse snigill (“snail”), but readjusted through *snagōn (“to crawl, creep”) +‎ *-il (agent suffix), whence also *snaggjō (“snail”).[1][2][3][4]

Noun

*snagil m

  1. snail
    Synonym: *snaggjō

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *snagil
Genitive *snagilas
Singular Plural
Nominative *snagil *snagilō, *snagilōs
Accusative *snagil *snagilā
Genitive *snagilas *snagilō
Dative *snagilē *snagilum
Instrumental *snagilu *snagilum

Descendants
  • Old English: sneġel, snæġl, snæġel, sneġl, snǣl, snēl
    • Middle English: snail, sneil, snayl, sneyl
  • Old Saxon: snegil
    • Middle Low German: snēgel
      • German Low German: Snagel, Snâel
  • Old High German: snegil

References
  1. Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SNAK-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 443: “snag-ila-”
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sniggan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 462: “*snagila-”
  3. Torp, Alf (1919) “Snigel”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 670: “germ. *snagila-”
  4. Hellquist, Elof (1922) “snigel”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 810: “*snaʒila-”
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