Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/knīpaną
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ǵneybʰ-. The root final -p was adopted from the iterative *knippōną.
Likely related to *hnīpaną, but it's unclear how the variation of the initial consonant arose.
Verb
[edit]- to pinch
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *knīpaną (strong class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *knīpan