Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ga-

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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *ga-.

Prefix

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*ga-[1]

  1. used as an intensifier for verbs, indicating completeness or perfectivity
  2. forms nouns or adjectives of association or similarity; co-
  3. forms nouns and verbs with the sense of "result" or "process"
  4. forms past participles or participle adjectives from verbs

Reconstruction notes

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Because of its perfective sense, it eventually became used as a marker of the past participle in the West Germanic languages.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 206:PWGmc. *ga-