Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwerraną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*kwerraną[1]
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *kwerraną (strong class 3)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Attested only in the past participle in Old English, but the verb itself must have lasted long enough for kw- to be restored in forms with zero-grade.
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*kwerranan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 228-229