Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bargijaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʷ-, *bʰergʷʰ- (“to feed”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φέρβω (phérbō, “to feed, nourish, graze”), Sanskrit भर्वति (bhárvati, “he chews, eats, devours”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*bargijaną[1]
- to taste
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *bargijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*barʒjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 37