Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skuwwijaną
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to give shade, to overshadow
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *skuwwijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *skūwijan
- Proto-Norse: *ᛊᚲᚢᚷᚹᛁᛃᚨᚾ (*skugwijan /skuggwijan/)
References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*skuwwan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 452: “*skuwwjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*skuwwjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 347