Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/argijaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *argaz (“unworthy, cowardly”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*argijaną[1]
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *argijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *argijan
- Old Norse: *ergja (only attested in the passive, ergjask (“to become a coward”))
- Icelandic: ergja
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*arʒjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23