Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/argijaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *argaz (“unworthy, cowardly”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*argijaną[1]
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *argijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *argijan
- Old Norse: *ergja (only attested in the passive, ergjask (“to become a coward”))
- Icelandic: ergja
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*arʒjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23