Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/glotōn

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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *glutōną, *gluttōną.

Verb

*glotōn

1. to stare, gawk

Inflection

Class 2 weak
Infinitive	*glotōn
1st sg. past	*glotōdā
Infinitive	*glotōn
Genitive infin.	*glotōnijas
Dative infin.	*glotōnijē
Instrum. infin.	*glotōniju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*glotō	*glotōdā
2nd singular	*glotōs	*glotōdēs, *glotōdōs
3rd singular	*glotōþ	*glotōdē, *glotōdā
1st plural	*glotōm	*glotōdum
2nd plural	*glotōþ	*glotōdud
3rd plural	*glotōnþ	*glotōdun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*glotō	*glotōdī
2nd singular	*glotōs	*glotōdī
3rd singular	*glotō	*glotōdī
1st plural	*glotōm	*glotōdīm
2nd plural	*glotōþ	*glotōdīd
3rd plural	*glotōn	*glotōdīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*glotō
Plural	*glotōþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*glotōndī	*glotōd

Descendants

• Old English: *glotian
  • Middle English: *gloten, glouten (alternatively borrowed from Old Norse glotta)
    • Scots: glout
    • English: gloat
• Old High German: *glozzōn
  • Middle High German: glotzen
    • German: glotzen
      • → German Low German: glotzen

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*glut(t)ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 183