Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/habjaną

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I'm still lost. What influence made the same word come out in different forms?Dakhart 06:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They were not the same word. They just happened to have identical infinitives, but the other forms were different. —CodeCat 11:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Surely the word "to lift" was *hafjaną, right? The dictionaries are agreed that the original Old High German inflection was heffen, huob, gihaban, and -b- was only later spread to the present (as in schlagen etc.). Online Etymological Dictionary says so too, as does Philippa "Etym. Woordenboek". 78.55.74.253 19:40, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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