Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flītan
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This Proto-West 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-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown;[1] presumably from Proto-Germanic *flītaną,[2] possibly:
- cognate with Welsh llwydd (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleyd- (“to attempt”),[3]
- or related to *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pleyd- (“to split”).[4]
Verb
[edit]Inflection
[edit]| Strong class 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *flītan | |
| 1st sg. past | *flait | |
| 3rd pl. past | *flitun | |
| Past ptcple | *flitan | |
| Infinitive | *flītan | |
| Genitive infin. | *flītannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *flītannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *flītannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *flītu | *flait |
| 2nd singular | *flītiʀi | *flitī |
| 3rd singular | *flītidi | *flait |
| 1st plural | *flītum | *flitum |
| 2nd plural | *flītid | *flitud |
| 3rd plural | *flītand | *flitun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *flītē | *flitī |
| 2nd singular | *flītēs | *flitī |
| 3rd singular | *flītē | *flitī |
| 1st plural | *flītēm | *flitīm |
| 2nd plural | *flītēþ | *flitīd |
| 3rd plural | *flītēn | *flitīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *flīt | |
| Plural | *flītid | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *flītandī | *flitan |
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: flītan
- Old Saxon: flītan
- Old Dutch: flītan
- Middle Dutch: vliten
- Old High German: flīzan, flīzzan
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fleiß”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 220
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “flitan”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 521-522
- ^ Etymologisches Wörterbuch der althochdeutschen Sprache, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*flītan”
Categories:
- Proto-West Germanic terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-West Germanic lemmas
- Proto-West Germanic verbs
- Proto-West Germanic class 1 strong verbs