Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwiknaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *kwikwaz (“alive”) + *-naną.
Pronunciation
Verb
*kwiknaną[1]
Inflection
Conjugation of *kwiknaną (weak class 4)
Descendants
- Old Norse: kvikna, kykna
- ⇒ Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌹𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽 (gaqiunan)
Further reading
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 259