Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fneusaną
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Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *pnew-, but presumably interpreted as onomatopoeic judging from the variety in the initial consonants.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit- to sneeze
Inflection
editConjugation of *fneusaną (strong class 2)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *fneusan
- Old Norse: *fnjósa, fnýsa
References
edit- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*fneusan- ~ *fnūsan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 149
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*fneusanan ~ *fnūsanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109