Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sugu

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 *sugō or *suwō, derived from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig, hog, swine”), with the West Germanic *-g- arising either:

• along with the Germanic cognates Swedish sugga, Elfdalian sugga and Norwegian sugge (< Old Norse *suggva), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-kéh₂, with a (diminutive?) suffix similar to those in Proto-Celtic *sukkos and Proto-Indo-Iranian *suHkás, but this does not easily explain the short root vowel (if a laryngeal is to be reconstructed) and North Germanic gemination;
• sporadically from *w between the high vowels *u (either already in Proto-Germanic from accusative *suwun, or in Proto-West Germanic *suwu), with the North Germanic cognates independently undergoing a parallel development via Holtzmann's law.

Noun

*sugu f

1. sow (female pig)

   Synonym: *sū

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sugu
Genitive	*sogā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sugu	*sogō
Accusative	*sogā	*sogā
Genitive	*sogā	*sogō
Dative	*sugē	*sogōm, *sugum
Instrumental	*sugu	*sogōm, *sugum

Related terms

• *sū

Descendants

• Old English: sugu
  • Middle English: sowe
    • English: sow
    • Scots: sou
• Old Saxon: suga
  • German Low German: Söög
• Old Dutch: *soga
  • Middle Dutch: soge, suege
    • Dutch: zeug