Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spreutaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Pre-Germanic *sprewd-, but also possibly back-formed from the iterative, from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”), extended form *sprewd-.[1] Related to Lithuanian sprausti (“to thrust”), Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō, “I sow”).[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *spreutaną (strong class 2)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *spreutan
- Old Norse: *sprúta
- Swedish: spruta
References[edit]
- ^ “sprout”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*spreutan- ~ *sprūtan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*spreutanan ~ *sprūtanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 366-367