Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swīnaną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”). According to Kroonen the development of the initial consonant cluster was unstable, leading to the doublets *dwīnaną and *þwīnaną.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *swīnaną (strong class 1)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*swīnan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 502
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*swīnanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397