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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/snigilaz

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

From *sneganą (“to crawl, creeping”) +‎ *-ilaz (agent suffix). Parallel formation with *snagilaz.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsni.ɣi.lɑz/

Noun

*snigilaz m[3][4][5][2][1]

  1. (North Germanic) snail (alternative form of *snagilaz)

Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *snigilaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *snigilaz *snigilōz, *snigilōs
vocative *snigil *snigilōz, *snigilōs
accusative *snigilą *snigilanz
genitive *snigilas, *snigilis *snigilǫ̂
dative *snigilai *snigilamaz
instrumental *snigilō *snigilamiz

Descendants
  • Old Norse: snigill
    • Icelandic: snigill
    • Faroese: snigil
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: snigel
    • Norwegian Bokmål: snile
    • Old Swedish: snighil
    • Old Danish: snigel, snæghæl

References
  1. Hellquist, Elof (1922) “snigel”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 810: “germ. *sniʒila-, av *sneʒila-”
  2. Torp, Alf (1919) “Snigel”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 670: “Germ. *snegila-;Germ. *sneg-; germ. *sneʒ-”
  3. 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 443: “sneg-ila-”
  4. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*sneʒilaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
  5. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sniggan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 462: “*snegila-”
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