Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fetaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *pid- (“to give birth”). Cognate with Old Irish idu (“labour pains”).
Verb[edit]
*fetaną
- to give birth
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *fetaną (strong class 5)
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”). Cognate with Russian па́дать (pádatʹ, “to fall, drop, decrease, decline”).
Verb[edit]
*fetaną
- to fall
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *fetaną (strong class 5)