Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwirkijaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *kwerkō (“throat”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to strangle
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *kwirkijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *kwirkijan
- Old Norse: kvirkja, kyrkja
- → Proto-Finnic: *kurgistadak (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kwerkō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*kwerkjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*kwerkjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 228