Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wakāną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-. Equivalent to *wakaną (“to wake up”) + *-āną.
Verb
[edit]*wakāną[1]
- (intransitive) to wake, to be awake
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *wakāną (weak class 3)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *wakēn
- Old Norse: vaka
References
[edit]- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*wakēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 441/442