Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/lappjan

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

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Particularly: “From the root of Proto-Germanic *lappōną (“to lap up”) + *-jan (“causative suffix”) (from Proto-Germanic *-janą (“causative suffix”)), thus "to make lick or lap up" > "to feed"?”

Verb

*lappjan^[1]

to provide food, feed

Inflection

Class 1 weak
Infinitive	*lappjan
1st sg. past	*lapidā
Infinitive	*lappjan
Genitive infin.	*lappjannjas
Dative infin.	*lappjannjē
Instrum. infin.	*lappjannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*lappju	*lapidā
2nd singular	*lapisi	lapidēs, lapidōs
3rd singular	*lapiþi	lapidē, lapidā
1st plural	*lappjum	*lapidum
2nd plural	*lapiþ	*lapidud
3rd plural	*lappjanþ	*lapidun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*lappjē	*lapidī
2nd singular	*lappjēs	*lapidī
3rd singular	*lappjē	*lapidī
1st plural	*lappjēm	*lapidīm
2nd plural	*lappjēþ	*lapidīd
3rd plural	*lappjēn	*lapidīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*lapi
Plural	*lapiþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*lappjandī	*lapid

Related terms

*lapil

Descendants

Old English: leppan
Old Saxon: *leppian
- >? Middle Low German: leppen (“to make wet, moisten”) (make wet by licking ?)
>? Old Dutch: *leppen
- Middle Dutch: *leppen
  - Dutch: leppen (“to lap”) (17th c., could alternatively be backformed < lepperen < lapen)
Old High German: *lepfen
- Middle High German: leffen (“to lick”)
- ⇒ Old High German: gilepfen

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 238: “PWGmc *lapʲpʲan”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 238: “PWGmc *lapʲpʲan”

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