Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/grottōn

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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gruttōną, from earlier paradigm *gruttōþi ~ *grutunanþi, from pre-Proto-Germanic *gʰrud-nā́-ti ~ *gʰrud-un-ánti, iterative to *greutan (“to crush”).

Verb

*grottōn

1. (iterative) to cut to pieces

Inflection

Class 2 weak
Infinitive	*grottōn
1st sg. past	*grottōdā
Infinitive	*grottōn
Genitive infin.	*grottōnijas
Dative infin.	*grottōnijē
Instrum. infin.	*grottōniju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*grottō	*grottōdā
2nd singular	*grottōs	*grottōdēs, *grottōdōs
3rd singular	*grottōþ	*grottōdē, *grottōdā
1st plural	*grottōm	*grottōdum
2nd plural	*grottōþ	*grottōdud
3rd plural	*grottōnþ	*grottōdun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*grottō	*grottōdī
2nd singular	*grottōs	*grottōdī
3rd singular	*grottō	*grottōdī
1st plural	*grottōm	*grottōdīm
2nd plural	*grottōþ	*grottōdīd
3rd plural	*grottōn	*grottōdīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*grottō
Plural	*grottōþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*grottōndī	*grottōd

Descendants

• Old High German: *grozzōn
  • Middle High German: *grotzen
    • Palatine German: grotzen, grutzen

Further reading

• Guus Kroonen (2013) “*gruttōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 193