Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slībaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”), the same source as *slīmą (“slime”) and *līmaz (“glue, clay, lime”).[1] For the semantics, compare Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (“to whet, sharpen”), Old High German slīman (“to make smooth”), Proto-Celtic *limāti (“to polish, sharpen”) and Latin līma (“carpenter's file”), from extensions of the same root.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsliː.βɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*slībaną
- (West Germanic) to split
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *slībō | *slībaų | — | *slībai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *slībizi | *slībaiz | *slīb | *slībazai | *slībaizau | |
| 3rd singular | *slībidi | *slībai | *slībadau | *slībadai | *slībaidau | |
| 1st dual | *slībōz | *slībaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *slībadiz | *slībaidiz | *slībadiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *slībamaz | *slībaim | — | *slībandai | *slībaindau | |
| 2nd plural | *slībid | *slībaid | *slībid | *slībandai | *slībaindau | |
| 3rd plural | *slībandi | *slībain | *slībandau | *slībandai | *slībaindau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *slaib | *slibį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *slaift | *slibīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *slaib | *slibī | ||||
| 1st dual | *slibū | *slibīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *slibudiz | *slibīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *slibum | *slibīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *slibud | *slibīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *slibun | *slibīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *slībandz | *slibanaz | ||||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *slīban
References
- ^ 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