Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/slīban
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“smooth, slick; sticky, slimy”), the same source as *slīm (“slime”) and *līm (“glue”).[1] For the semantics, compare Proto-West Germanic *slīpan (“to whet, sharpen”), Old High German slīman (“to make smooth”), Proto-Celtic *limāti (“to polish, sharpen”), and Latin līma (“carpenter's file”), from the same root.[2]
Verb
[edit]*slīban
Inflection
[edit]| Strong class 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *slīban | |
| 1st sg. past | *slaib | |
| 3rd pl. past | *slibun | |
| Past ptcple | *sliban | |
| Infinitive | *slīban | |
| Genitive infin. | *slībannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *slībannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *slībannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *slību | *slaib |
| 2nd singular | *slībiʀi | *slibī |
| 3rd singular | *slībidi | *slaib |
| 1st plural | *slībum | *slibum |
| 2nd plural | *slībid | *slibud |
| 3rd plural | *slīband | *slibun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *slībē | *slibī |
| 2nd singular | *slībēs | *slibī |
| 3rd singular | *slībē | *slibī |
| 1st plural | *slībēm | *slibīm |
| 2nd plural | *slībēþ | *slibīd |
| 3rd plural | *slībēn | *slibīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *slīb | |
| Plural | *slībid | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *slībandī | *sliban |
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: slīfan
- Old Saxon: *slīvan
- >? Middle Low German: slîven (“to ladle out, spoon in, ingest”)
References
[edit]- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slijpen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lim-ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 239