Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/grunnatjaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *grunnōną + *-atjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to thunder”)[1] or *gʰrun- (“to shout”),[2] both likely imitative.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*grunnatjaną
- To grunt.
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *grunnatjaną (weak class 1 j-present)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *grunnattjan
References[edit]
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1126, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1126
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 773