Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwistijaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *kwistiz (“damage, destruction”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to destroy
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of *kwistijaną (weak class 1)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *kwistijan
- Old Norse: *kvista
- Danish: quista (dialectal)
- Gothic: 𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (qistjan)
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*kwestjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 229
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kwisti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320: “*kwestjan-”