Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sweh₂gʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Root

*sweh₂gʰ-

to sound

Derived terms

*suh₂gʰ-
- Proto-Germanic: *swagilōną
  - Old Norse: svagla (“to splash”)
*suh₂gʰ-os (possibly)
- Proto-Germanic: *sūgaz
  - Old Norse: (arn)súgr (“rushing sound [of a flying eagle]”)
    - Icelandic: súgur (“rustling sound”)
*sweh₂gʰ-éh₂
- Proto-Hellenic: *swākʰā́
  - Ancient Greek: ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”), ᾱ̓χᾱ́ (ākhā́)
*swéh₂gʰ-e-ti (root thematic present)
- Proto-Germanic: *swōganą (“resound”)
*swéh₂gʰ-is ~ *swh₂gʰ-éys
- Proto-Germanic: *swōgiz (“sound”)
*swe-súh₂gʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic: *swiswákʰō
  - Ancient Greek: ἰάχω (iákhō, “to shout, scream”), ἰαχή (iakhḗ, “shout, scream”)

Unsorted formations

Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Latvian: sūdzēt (“wail, lament; complain; litigate”)
- Latvian: svadzēt, žvadzēt (“rattle, clink”)
- Lithuanian: sugti (“howl, whimper, whine”)
- Lithuanian: svagėti (“sound”)

References

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἠχη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 528
Lehmann, Winfred P. (1986) “S178. *swegnjan”, in A Gothic Etymological Dictionary, based on the 3rd ed. of Feist’s dictionary, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 333–334