Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/twitwizōną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Likely onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*twitwizōną
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *twitwizōną (weak class 2)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *twitwiʀōn
- Old English: *twiterian, *twitrian
- Old Dutch: *twiteron, *kwiteron (possible dissimilation)
- Middle Dutch: *quēteren (attested in quēteringhe)
- Old High German: zwizzirōn, zwizerōn
- Middle High German: zwitzern
- German: zwitzern, zwitschern
- Luxembourgish: zwitscheren
- Middle High German: zwitzern
- Old Norse: *tvitra, *kvitra