Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stūpaną
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This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to *staupaz (“steep”) and *staupijaną (“to pour”), thus seeming to reflect a pre-Germanic root *stewb-. However, the rarity of *b in Proto-Indo-European and cognates such as Latin stupeō (“to be stunned”) make it more likely that the root was *stewp- (“to push, hit, knock”) with a semantic shift to “fall (over)”,[1] and so Germanic *steup-, *stūp- could have been back-formed from earlier *stupp-, from pre-Germanic *stup-né(h₂)-; this process has been used to explain many other instances of root-final *p in Germanic. Compare also Proto-Germanic *stubbô, *stubbaz (“stump, stub”).
Kroonen derives the Germanic from a homophonous root *stewp- (“to stoop, bend”), implicitly considering it etymologically separate from the "push, hit" sense above, and adduces only Welsh ystum (“a bend, turn”), Breton stumm (“idem”) as cognates.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*stūpaną[1]
Inflection
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- *staupijaną (“to make fall”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*stūpanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 384-5
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*stūpēn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488