Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sīganą
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Orel, a variant of *sīhwaną, which is from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out; gush; flow; run; trickle”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “why was it delabialized?”)
Verb
[edit]*sīganą[1]
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *sīganą (strong class 1)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*sīʒ(w)anan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 329