Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hlināną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). Cognate with Latin clīnō (“slope, incline, bend”), Ancient Greek κλίνω (klínō, “bend, slant, lean”).[1]
Verb
[edit]*hlināną[1]
- to lean
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *hlināną (weak class 3)
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *hlinēn
- Old Norse: *hlina
- Norwegian: lina (dialectal)
Further reading
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*hlinēn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 231
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*xlinōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177