Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hrinkwaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unclear. Thought to be related to Old High German hranca and Middle Dutch ranke (“tendril, twig”). Furthermore possibly related to Old Church Slavonic крѫгъ (krǫgŭ, “circle”).[1]
Alternative reconstructions[edit]
- *hrenkwaną[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*hrinkwaną
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *hrinkwaną (strong class 3)
Descendants[edit]
- Old Norse: hrǫkkva
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Seebold, Elmar (1970) “*HRENKW-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 273