smoy

Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źmṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling, man”). Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ, Latin homō, Old Norse gumi.

Noun

smoy m

  1. man
    • c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary‎ (in Middle High German), page 173, line 187:
      Man   Smoy
      Man — Smoy
  2. human

Synonyms
  • smūni
  • smunents
  • smunentinan

Further reading
  • G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “smoy”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 170
  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1997) “smoy”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎ (in Lithuanian), volume 4, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, pages 132–134
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