Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/serþaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Kroonen reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit (?); to rub against, move obliquely against”). Compare Hittite 𒊬𒋫𒄿 (šar-ta-i, “to wipe, rub”) and perhaps Welsh serth (“obscene”). Kloekhorst meanwhile argues for *serdʰH- based on Hittite.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*serþaną
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *serþaną (strong class 3)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Guus Kroonen (2013) “*serþan- ~ *serdan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 433
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “šarta-i / šart-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 737–738