Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/serþaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Kroonen reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit (?); to rub against, move obliquely against”). Compare Hittite 𒊬𒋫𒄿 (šar-ta-i, “to wipe, rub”) and perhaps Welsh serth (“obscene”). Kloekhorst meanwhile argues for *serdʰH- based on Hittite.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*serþaną
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *serþaną (strong class 3)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Old English: seorþan
- Middle Low German: serden
- Old High German: sertan
- Middle High German: serten
- Old Norse: serða
References[edit]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*serþan- ~ *serdan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 433
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “šarta-i / šart-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 737–738