Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/innanē
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *in + *-anē. The development of the form of the word is uncertain. If the vowel *-a- was not part of the suffix itself, it could have been picked up from similar words, namely *ubanē, in which case the gemination had been introduced by analogy with *inn or *innai.[1] If the original allative form of *inn were Pre-Germanic *en-no, then the ablative could have been built upon that, or as likely the locative *en-noy, which would explain the vowel and the gemination.
Pronunciation
Adverb
*innanē
Related terms
Descendants
- Old English: innan
- Middle English: innen
- Old Saxon: innan
- Old High German: innana
- Old Norse: innan
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽𐌰 (innana)
The West Germanic languages also extended this form with the preposition *bi.
- Old English: binnan
- Old Frisian: binna
- West Frisian: binnen
- Old Saxon: *binnan
- Old Dutch: *binnan
- Old High German: *binnana
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN