Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/maganōną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from *maganą (“power, a variant of *maginą”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*maganōną
- to strengthen
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *maganōną (weak class 2)
Alternative forms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *maganōn
- Old English: *magnian
- ⇒ Old English: gemagnian
- Old High German: *maganōn
- ⇒ Old High German: ubarmaganōn
- Old English: *magnian
- Old Norse: magna
- Icelandic: magna
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*maʒenōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253