Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwirbilōną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *hwirbilaz (“circle, ring, whirl”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*hwirbilōną[1]
- to whirl
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *hwirbilōną (weak class 2)
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: *hwirfilian
- Middle English: *whirvelen
- Old Dutch: *wervilon
- Old High German: *wirbilōn
- Old Norse: hvirfla
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*hwerbilōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 200