Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rinnaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥-néw-ti (“to flow, move, run”); outside of Germanic, it is also the source of Middle Irish rian (“river, way”), Proto-Slavic *rěka (“river”), Latin rivus (“stream”), Sanskrit ऋति (ṛti, “course, way”), रीणाति (rīṇāti, “causes to flow”) and Gaulish Rēnos (“that which flows”), which is the source of the German river Rhine.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*rinnaną
Inflection
Conjugation of *rinnaną (strong class 3)
Derived terms
Descendants
Many of these descendants have taken the present stem ren- from the causative.
- Proto-West Germanic: *rinnan
- Old Norse: rinna, renna
- Icelandic: renna
- Faroese: renna
- Norn: rinna
- Norwegian: renne
- Old Swedish: rinna
- Swedish: rinna
- Danish: rinde
- Gutnish: rinne, rinn', rinna
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- Elfdalian: rinna
- Gothic: 𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (rinnan)
- → Latin: haliurunna (uncertain etymology, but possibly from *𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌾𐍉𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰 (*haljōrunna, “witch, one who travels to the netherworld”))
References
- ^ From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic : A Linguistic History, Volume 1