Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/īlijan

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

Etymology

From *īlu (“haste, eagerness”) +‎ *-jan.

Verb

*īlijan

1. to make haste, hasten

Inflection

Class 1 weak
Infinitive	*īlijan
1st sg. past	*īlidā
Infinitive	*īlijan
Genitive infin.	*īlijannjas
Dative infin.	*īlijannjē
Instrum. infin.	*īlijannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*īliju	*īlidā
2nd singular	*īlisi	*īlidēs, *īlidōs
3rd singular	*īliþi	*īlidē, *īlidā
1st plural	*īlijum	*īlidum
2nd plural	*īliþ	*īlidud
3rd plural	*īlijanþ	*īlidun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*īlijē	*īlidī
2nd singular	*īlijēs	*īlidī
3rd singular	*īlijē	*īlidī
1st plural	*īlijēm	*īlidīm
2nd plural	*īlijēþ	*īlidīd
3rd plural	*īlijēn	*īlidīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*īli
Plural	*īliþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*īlijandī	*īlid

Descendants

• Old Frisian: īla
• Old Saxon: īlian
  • Middle Low German: îlen
    • German Low German: ielen
    • → Danish: ile
    • → Old Swedish: ila
      • Swedish: ila
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ile
• Old Dutch: īlen
  • Middle Dutch: ilen
    • Dutch: ijlen
• Old High German: īlen
  • Middle High German: īlen
    • German: eilen

References

• Guus Kroonen (2013) “*īljan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269