Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slībaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Verb[edit]
*slībaną
- (West Germanic) to split
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *slībaną (strong class 1)
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *slīban
References[edit]
- ^ 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