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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/writtōną

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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

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Etymology

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An iterative verb to the strong verb *wrītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-ti[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwrit.tɔː.nɑ̃/

Verb

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*writtōną[1]

  1. to carve
  2. to write

Inflection

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The original paradigm would have consisted of two stem variants, singular *writt- against non-singular *writ-.

Descendants

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*writtōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 597