Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sān(ō)

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sēna, *sēnô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun). Compare also Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).^[1]

Adverb

*sān(ō)^[2]

immediately

Descendants

Old English: sōna
- Middle English: sone
  - Scots: sone, sune, schone, schune, seun, suin
  - English: soon
Old Frisian: sān, sōn
- North Frisian: san
Old Saxon: sān, sāna, sāno, sāne
- Middle Low German: sân
Old Dutch: *sān
- Middle Dutch: sâen
  - Dutch: zaan
  - Limburgish: zaon
Old High German: sān
- Middle High German: sān, son

References

^ William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “soon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “PWGmc *sānō”

[1] William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “soon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

[2] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “PWGmc *sānō”

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