Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/etaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*etaną
- to eat
Inflection
[edit]The past singular is anomalous and has long ē rather than the expected short a (possibly continuing the Proto-Indo-European reduplicated stative *h₁eh₁óde).
Conjugation of *etaną (strong class 5)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *etan
- Old English: etan, eata — Northumbrian, eotan, ætan
- Old Frisian: ita, eta
- Old Saxon: etan
- Old Dutch: etan
- Old High German: ezzan
- Middle High German: ëzzen, eszen
- Old Norse: eta
- Gothic: 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan)
- → Proto-Finnic: *ettana (see there for further descendants)
Categories:
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ed-
- Proto-Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Proto-Germanic lemmas
- Proto-Germanic verbs
- Proto-Germanic class 5 strong verbs
- gem-pro:Food and drink