Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þananā
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Proto-West Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *þan (“then”) + *-anā (ablative suffix).
Adverb[edit]
*þananā
Usage notes[edit]
- The geminate -nn- in Middle English and Middle High German is either by analogy with *þannē or due to contraction of the medial vowel (with subsequent restitution of the suffix based on uncontracted forms).
Descendants[edit]
- Old English: þanan, þanon, þanone, þonan
- Old Frisian: thana
- Old Saxon: thanan, thanana
- Old Dutch: *thanana
- Old High German: danān, danana
References[edit]
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*þananē̆”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416