Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-naną
(Redirected from Appendix:Proto-Germanic/-naną)
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Reconstructed by Ringe[1] from an alternating suffix *-nō- (singular) ~ *-na- (nonsingular), from Proto-Indo-European *-néh₂- ~ *-nh₂-, from n-infix presents to laryngeal-final roots that were reanalysed as a separate suffix (as in several other branches).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*-naną
- Forms fientive verbs, with a sense of 'to become (the base)'.
Inflection edit
These verbs are always intransitive, so there are no passive forms. They seemed to have originally lacked a past participle as well.
Conjugation of *-naną (weak class 4)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
This suffix was preserved as a separate class only in Gothic. In Old High German, it mostly merged with the third weak class, while in the other descendants it merged with the second weak class.
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN