smoy

Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źmṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling, man”). Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ, Latin homō, Old Norse gumi.

Noun

smoy m

1. man
   • c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary‎^[1] (in Middle High German), page 173, line 187:

     Man   Smoy

     Man — Smoy

2. human

Synonyms

• wijrs

Related terms

• smūni
• smunents
• smunentinan

Further reading

• G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “smoy”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 170
• Mažiulis, Vytautas (1997) “smoy”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎^[2] (in Lithuanian), volume 4, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, pages 132–134