sū̆ -s, suu-̯ os

    sū̆ -s, suu-̯ ós

    English meaning: pig, swine

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Hausschwein, Sau”

    Material: Av. hū (gen. sg. for *huvō) ‘swine”; Gk. ὗς, ὑός, acc. ὗν m. “boar”, f. ‘sow” (therefrom ὕαινα f. “Hyäne”) besides σῦς, συός ds.; in addition συῆλαι τόποι βορβορώδεις Hes.; συφε(ι)ός, συφός m. “ pigpen” (*-φέFιος, to φύω, IE bheu-, above S. 146 ff.); Sternbild the ΏΤάδες “group from Schweinen”; compare Gk. lak. σίκα; Alb. thi ‘swine”; Lat. sūs, suis ‘swine”, Umbr. sif ‘sues”, sim ‘suem”, suřum, sorsom, sorsalem ‘suillum” (*sŭ-do-, *sŭ-düli-); Gaul. *su-tegis “ pigpen” (M.-L. 8492); O.H.G. O.E. sū, O.Ice. sȳr ‘sow”; Ltv. suvẽns, sivẽns “piglet” (unclear O.Pruss. seweynis “ pigpen”); Toch. В suwo ‘swine”; adjektivische no-

    Derivatives: on the one hand Gk. (late) ὑηνός “from swine”, on the other hand (ursprachlich) Lat. suīnus ds., O.C.S. svinъ ds. = Ltv. svīns ‘smudges”; Toch. В swüñ ana misa ‘schweinefleisch”; substantivized Goth. swein, O.Ice. suīn, O.E. O.H.G. swīn ‘swine”; O.C.S. svinija ‘swine” probably from *svīnī (fem. to svinъ) reshaped. k-

    Derivatives: O.Ind. sūkara- m. “boar, swine” (umgedeutet as ‘sū-macher”); M.Pers. xūk, Osset. χui ds.; Lat.sucula “young sow”; with expressive Gemination: Celt. *sukko- ‘swine, (Schweine- )Schnauze, plowshare “ in O.Ir. socc sá il “Meerschwein” (ein fish), M.Ir. soc m. “ plowshare, snout (of Schweines)”, O.Ir. FlN Socc; Welsh hwch m. f., later only f. ‘swine”, Corn. hoch, Bret. houc”h, hoc”h m. ‘swine”; from dem Gallo-Lat. derive Welsh swch, Corn. soch, Bret. souc”h and Fr. soc “ plowshare “; O.E. sugu ‘sow”, O.S. suga, M.L.G. soge, Ger. schwäb. suge ‘sow”; with expressive Gemination Nor. Swe. sugga, M.L.G. sugge.

    References: WP. II 512 f., WH. II 635 ff., Trautmann 294, Vasmer 2, 593, Benveniste BSL 45, 74 f. 90, Thieme, Heimat d. IE Gemeinsprache 26 f., 36 f.; probably originally “Gebärerin”, to seu-2: sū- “ to give birth to children “ (above S. 913 f.); compare O.Ir. berit ‘sow” (*bherentī); or but lautnachahmend?