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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/snākō

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

From Proto-Germanic *snēkô.[1][2][3]

Noun

*snākō m

  1. person or thing that crawls, creeps

Inflection
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *snākō
Genitive *snākini, *snākan
Singular Plural
Nominative *snākō *snākan
Accusative *snākan *snākan
Genitive *snākini, *snākan *snākanō
Dative *snākini, *snākan *snākum
Instrumental *snākini, *snākan *snākum

Derived terms
  • *snākijan
    • Old English: *snǣcan

Descendants
  • Old High German: *snāko (“gnat”)[4]

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 442: “snǣk-a-z”
  2. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*snakōn ~ *snēkaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
  3. Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 137: “*snēkkan-”
  4. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schnake”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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