Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þwīnaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”). According to Kroonen the development of the initial consonant cluster was unstable, leading to the doublets *dwīnaną and *swīnaną.
An older hypothesis compares Ancient Greek σῑ́νομαι (sī́nomai, “to damage, injure, devastate, plunder”), itself of disputed origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *þwīnaną (strong class 1)