Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/munāną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *munaną (“to think, consider”) + *-āną or *muniz (“mind, desire”) + *-āną.
Verb[edit]
*munāną[1]
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *munāną (weak class 3)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *munēn
- Old English: mynian (with unexpected umlaut, possibly backformed to the noun)
- Old Norse: muna (only the weak inflected forms)
- Gothic: munān
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*munēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276