Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/grunnatjaną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *grunnōną + *-atjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to thunder”)[1] or *gʰrun- (“to shout”),[2] both likely imitative.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*grunnatjaną
- To grunt.
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *grunnatjaną (weak class 1 j-present)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *grunnattjan
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1126”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1126
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 773