Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wanjaną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From *wanaz (“accustomed”) +‎ *-janą (factitive suffix).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɑn.jɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*wanjaną

to accustom, to make used to

Inflection

Conjugation of *wanjaną (weak class 1)
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
	active voice			passive voice
1st singular	*wanjō	*wanjaų	—	*wanjai	?
2nd singular	*wanisi	*wanjais	*wani	*wanjasai	*wanjaisau
3rd singular	*waniþi	*wanjai	*wanjaþau	*wanjaþai	*wanjaiþau
1st dual	*wanjōs	*wanjaiw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*wanjaþiz	*wanjaiþiz	*wanjaþiz	—	—
1st plural	*wanjamaz	*wanjaim	—	*wanjanþai	*wanjainþau
2nd plural	*waniþ	*wanjaiþ	*waniþ	*wanjanþai	*wanjainþau
3rd plural	*wanjanþi	*wanjain	*wanjanþau	*wanjanþai	*wanjainþau

past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wanidǭ	*wanidēdį̄
2nd singular	*wanidēz	*wanidēdīz
3rd singular	*wanidē	*wanidēdī
1st dual	*wanidēdū	*wanidēdīw
2nd dual	*wanidēdudiz	*wanidēdīdiz
1st plural	*wanidēdum	*wanidēdīm
2nd plural	*wanidēdud	*wanidēdīd
3rd plural	*wanidēdun	*wanidēdīn

	present	past
participles	*wanjandz	*wanidaz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *wannjan
- Old English: wenian, wennan
  - Middle English: wenen
    - English: wean
    - Scots: wain
- Old Frisian: wena, wenia, wennia, winnia
  - >? Saterland Frisian: woane
  - West Frisian: wenne
- Old Saxon: wennian
  - Middle Low German: wennen, wenen, wēnen
    - German Low German: wennen
- Old Dutch: *wennen
  - Middle Dutch: wennen
    - Dutch: wennen
      - Afrikaans: wen
- Old High German: wennen
  - Middle High German: wenen, wennen
    - ⇒ German: entwöhnen, gewöhnen, verwöhnen
    - Luxembourgish: winnen
Old Norse: venja
- Icelandic: venja
- Faroese: venja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: venja, venna; (dialectal) vønjå, væna
- Elfdalian: wena
- Old Swedish: vænia
  - Swedish: vänja
- Old Danish: wæniæ
  - Scanian: vænna
  - Danish: vænne
    - Norwegian Bokmål: venne
- Gutnish: väne

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*wana- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 573: “*wanjan-”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*wana- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 573: “*wanjan-”

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