swangar
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *swangr (“heavy”), further origin unknown; according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *sʷenk-, *sunk-, see also Lithuanian sunkus (“difficult, heavy, swollen”).[1]
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1048, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1048
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.