Reconstruction:Old English/snæcan
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This Old English 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. |
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Either from Proto-West Germanic *snākijan, from *snākō (“person or thing that crawls, creeps”) + *-jan, or *snaikijan, causative to *snīkan (“to crawl, creep”), whence snīcan.[1]
Verb[edit]
- to sneak
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SNEIK-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 443
- ^ Torp, Alf (1919) “snika”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 810: “ags. *snǽcan”
- ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “Snǐken”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary][1] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 671: “ags. *snǽcan”