Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/etaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed-.
Pronunciation
Verb
*etaną
- to eat
Inflection
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
Related terms
Descendants
- 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
- Icelandic: eta, éta
- Faroese: eta
- Norwegian:
- Old Swedish: æta
- Swedish: äta
- Old Danish: ætæ
- Danish: æde
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- Elfdalian: jätå
- Gutnish: äte, jite, jeta
- Scanian: æda
- Gothic: 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan)