Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hangāną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *hanhaną (“to hang”) + *-āną.
Verb
[edit]*hangāną
- (intransitive) to hang, to be suspended
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *hangāną (weak class 3)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *hangēn
- Old Norse: hanga
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhān) (< *hanhāną, or a later alteration based on the homographic strong verb)
References
[edit]- ^ “hing, v., n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries: “The form hangit is from the pr. stem hang, Mid.Eng. hangen, in O.Sc. referring gen. only to judicial hanging.”.