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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lingwą

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

Perhaps from Pre-Proto-Germanic *lengʷʰom, from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ-. Compare Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ (“meadow”) from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lanˀgas. The original meaning may have been *“unused land”; Kroonen compares the semantic development of *haiþī (“heath”).[1] The same semantic pairing exists in modern Irish fraoch.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈliŋʷ.ɡʷɑ̃/

Noun

*lingwą n[1]

  1. (North Germanic) heather, ling

Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *lingwą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *lingwą *lingwō
vocative *lingwą *lingwō
accusative *lingwą *lingwō
genitive *lingwas, *lingwis *lingwǫ̂
dative *lingwai *lingwamaz
instrumental *lingwō *lingwamiz

Derived terms
  • *lungwa-blautaz[1]
    • Proto-Norse:
      • Swedish: lung-blōt (“soaked”) (dialectal)
      • Norwegian: lunge-blaut (“soaked”) (dialectal)

Descendants

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*lingwa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338
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