Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fēgōną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain, either from:
- Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“secure, attach, strengthen”), for a similar semantic development see Lithuanian puõsti (“to decorate, make pretty”).
- Or from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“joyful, pretty”), closely related to the strong verb *fehaną.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*fēgōną[1]
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *fēgōną (weak class 2)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*fēʒōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 102