Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wiskijaną

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From *wiskaz (“bundle of hay/straw, wisp”) +‎ *-janą.

Verb

*wiskijaną

1. to sweep
2. to sweep away, to clean
3. to erase

Inflection

Conjugation of *wiskijaną (weak class 1)

	active voice			passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wiskijō	*wiskijaų	—	*wiskijai	?
2nd singular	*wiskīsi	*wiskijais	*wiskī	*wiskijasai	*wiskijaisau
3rd singular	*wiskīþi	*wiskijai	*wiskijaþau	*wiskijaþai	*wiskijaiþau
1st dual	*wiskijōs	*wiskijaiw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*wiskijaþiz	*wiskijaiþiz	*wiskijaþiz	—	—
1st plural	*wiskijamaz	*wiskijaim	—	*wiskijanþai	*wiskijainþau
2nd plural	*wiskīþ	*wiskijaiþ	*wiskīþ	*wiskijanþai	*wiskijainþau
3rd plural	*wiskijanþi	*wiskijain	*wiskijanþau	*wiskijanþai	*wiskijainþau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wiskidǭ	*wiskidēdį̄
2nd singular	*wiskidēz	*wiskidēdīz
3rd singular	*wiskidē	*wiskidēdī
1st dual	*wiskidēdū	*wiskidēdīw
2nd dual	*wiskidēdudiz	*wiskidēdīdiz
1st plural	*wiskidēdum	*wiskidēdīm
2nd plural	*wiskidēdud	*wiskidēdīd
3rd plural	*wiskidēdun	*wiskidēdīn
	present	past
participles	*wiskijandz	*wiskidaz

Descendants

• Old Saxon: *wiskian
  • Middle Low German: wischen
• Old Dutch: *wisken
  • Middle Dutch: wisschen
    • Dutch: wissen
    • Limburgish: wösje
• Old High German: wisken
  • Bavarian: wischn
  • German: wischen
    • → Esperanto: viŝi
  • Yiddish: ווישן (vishn)
• Old Norse: *viska (or possibly the descendants are loaned from West Germanic)
  • Icelandic: viska
  • Faroese: viska
  • Swedish: viska
  • Danish: viske
• →? Proto-Finnic: *pühkidäk