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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *smītaną</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_smītaną</idno>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_smeyd" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*smeyd-</orth>
          <def>to smear, whick, strike, rub</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_smed" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*smědъ</orth>
          <def>brown, dirty</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_smitana" type="verb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/smītaną">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>smītaną</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈsmiː.tɑ.nɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛗᛁᛏᚨᚾᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>verb</pos>
            <gram type="class">Strong class 1</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>to cast; sling; hurl</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>to hit; strike</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>to smear; dirty</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_smeyd"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_smeyd">*smeyd-</ref></mentioned> (‘to smear, whick, strike, rub’), and cognate with Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="sla-x-proto" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_smed"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_smed">*smědъ</ref></mentioned> (‘brown, dirty’), Old Armenian միծ (mic, ‘fetid mud’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #sg">
              <orth>smītō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #sg">
              <orth>smītaų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p1 #sg">
              <orth>smītai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smītizi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smītaiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smīt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smītazai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smītaizau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smītidi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smītai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smītadau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smītadai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smītaidau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #du">
              <orth>smītōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #du">
              <orth>smītaiw</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>smītadiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>smītaidiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>smītadiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #pl">
              <orth>smītamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #pl">
              <orth>smītaim</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p1 #pl">
              <orth>smītandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p1 #pl">
              <orth>smītaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smītid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smītaid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smītid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smītandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smītaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smītandi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smītain</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smītandau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smītandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smītaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #sg">
              <orth>smait</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #sg">
              <orth>smitį̄</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smaist</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #sg">
              <orth>smitīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smait</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p3 #sg">
              <orth>smitī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #du">
              <orth>smitū</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #du">
              <orth>smitīw</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #du">
              <orth>smitudiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #du">
              <orth>smitīdiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #pl">
              <orth>smitum</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #pl">
              <orth>smitīm</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smitud</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #pl">
              <orth>smitīd</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smitun</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p3 #pl">
              <orth>smitīn</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="participle" subtype="present">
              <orth>smītandz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="participle" subtype="past">
              <orth>smitanaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="infinitive">
              <orth>smītaną</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*smītan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*smītan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>smiten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>smiete</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*smītan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*smītan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>smiten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>smijten</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>smyt</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*smītan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>smītan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>smiten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>smite</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>smite, smyte</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*smītan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>smīta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>smiete</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>smite</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*smītan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>smīzan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>smīzen</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>schmeißen</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Hunsrik</lang>
                        <orth>schmeise</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>schmäissen</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*smītan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>smītan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>smîten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>smieten</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>smíta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>smide</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>smita</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>*𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*smeitan)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (gasmeitan)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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