Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sūftu
Appearance
Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *sūpan (“to slurp, guzzle”) + *-þu, with sense development "slurp up air" > "inhale" > "sigh".[1][2]
Noun
[edit]*sūftu m
Inflection
[edit]u-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *sūftu | |
Genitive | *sūftō | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *sūftu | *sūftiwi, *sūftō |
Accusative | *sūftu | *sūftū |
Genitive | *sūftō | *sūftiwō |
Dative | *sūftiwi, *sūftō | *sūftum |
Instrumental | *sūftu | *sūftum |
Related terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old Saxon: *sūft
- Middle Low German: sucht
- Old Dutch: *suft
- Old High German: *sūft
- Middle High German: sûft
References
[edit]- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “seufzen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “seufzen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 670