Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gant
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This Proto-West 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-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to flourish, be full, swell, abound”), and cognate with Lithuanian ganė́ti (“to be enough, be sufficient, suffice”), Sanskrit घन (ghaná, “compact, solid, dense”), Persian آگنج (âganj, “full, complete”), Persian آکندن (âgandan, “to fill up”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) However, Kroonen appears to be implicitly skeptical, due to the word being originally attested only in High German (with other cognates being borrowings from High German), and prefers to relate the word to a Proto-Germanic *gintaną (“to be startled”) (whose only descendant is dialectal Swiss German erginzen (“to cringe, shiver”)), with semantic shift "to be startled" > "to shiver" > "terribly" > "very much" > "whole, complete".[1] The latter root apparently stems from a Proto-Indo-European *gʰend- (“to startle”), whence Lithuanian gą̃stas (“a scare”), Latvian gañdinât (“to scare”).[2]
Adjective
[edit]*gant
Inflection
[edit]| a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | ||
| Nominative | *gant | ||
| Genitive | *gantas | ||
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *gant | *gantu | *gant |
| Accusative | *gantanā | *gantā | *gant |
| Genitive | *gantas | *ganteʀā | *gantas |
| Dative | *gantumē | *ganteʀē | *gantumē |
| Instrumental | *gantu | *ganteʀu | *gantu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *gantē | *gantō | *gantu |
| Accusative | *gantā | *gantā | *gantu |
| Genitive | *ganteʀō | *ganteʀō | *ganteʀō |
| Dative | *gantēm, *gantum | *gantēm, *gantum | *gantēm, *gantum |
| Instrumental | *gantēm, *gantum | *gantēm, *gantum | *gantēm, *gantum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old High German: ganz
References
[edit]- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*ganta-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 168
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*gintan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 178