Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þerkōną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Sanskrit तर्जति (tarjati, “to threaten”) and Ancient Greek ταρβέω (tarbéō, “to be afraid”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*þerkōną[1]
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *þerkōną (weak class 2)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *þerkōn
- Old English: *þercian
- ⇒ Old English: āþercian
- ⇒ Old English: eftþercian
- Old English: *þercian
- Old Norse: þjarka
- Icelandic: þjarka