Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/huppijaną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”); see *hupiz (“hip”). Or, derived from the iterative *huppōną ~ *hubbōną, from a Proto-Indo-European *kup-; see there for more.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*huppijaną
- (West Germanic) to move up and down; hop
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *huppijaną (weak class 1)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *huppijan
- Proto-Norse:
- Old Norse: *hyppa
- →? Proto-Finnic: *hüp'äit'äk (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “hüpfen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN