Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skammijaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *skammaz (“short, blunt”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*skammijaną[1]
- to shorten
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *skammijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *skammijan
- Old High German: skemmen
- Old Norse: skemma
- Icelandic: skemma
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*skammjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 333