Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ahjaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Has been compared to *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”) (by Osthoff) and to Ancient Greek ὄκνος (óknos, “hesitation”) (by Pokorny). Kroonen instead suggests it could be identical to *ahjaną (“to graze”), whence Old Norse æja, if the intermediate meaning was “to ruminate”, except for the fact that he reconstructs that verb as *aiwjaną.[1]
Verb
[edit]*ahjaną[1]
- to think
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *ahjaną (weak class 1)