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To emit a smell or vapour, exhale

Source: Ringe 2014:215, https://bosworthtoller.com/29003
originates from
PWGmc *stinkwan "to smell" (oe-w-after-non-initial-velars) through pwgmc-to-oe
(source: Ringe 2014:215)
PGmc *stinkʷan- "thrust, clash; to stink" (stinkʷan- > stinkwan > stinkan) through pgmc-to-oe
(source: Kroonen 2013:480)

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