Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/darnī
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown;[1] suggested to be related to *derk (“dirty, dark”) and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).[2]
Adjective
[edit]Inflection
[edit]ja-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | ||
Nominative | *darnī | ||
Genitive | *darnijas | ||
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | *darnī | *darniju | *darnī |
Accusative | *darnijanā | *darnijā | *darnī |
Genitive | *darnijas | *darnijeʀā | *darnijas |
Dative | *darnijumē | *darnijeʀē | *darnijumē |
Instrumental | *darniju | *darnijeʀu | *darniju |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | *darnijē | *darnijō | *darniju |
Accusative | *darnijā | *darnijā | *darniju |
Genitive | *darnijeʀō | *darnijeʀō | *darnijeʀō |
Dative | *darnijēm, *darnijum | *darnijēm, *darnijum | *darnijēm, *darnijum |
Instrumental | *darnijēm, *darnijum | *darnijēm, *darnijum | *darnijēm, *darnijum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: dierne, derne, dyrne
- Old Frisian: *dern
- ⇒ Old Frisian: dernfiā
- ⇒ Old Frisian: dernlendenge
- ⇒ Old Frisian: dernsōne
- Old Saxon: derni
- Old High German: tarni
- → Old French: *terne[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “tarnen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 721: “wg. *darnja-”
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2. dher-, dherə-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 252-255
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 242: “PWGmc *darnī”
- ^ Brachet, A. (1873) “TERNE”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co., page 382b