Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hanapiz

This Proto-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-Germanic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

A Kulturwort of unknown ultimate origin. See Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis) for more. Although a loanword, it was borrowed early enough for the word to be affected by Grimm's law, shifting *k to *h and *b to *p.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

*hanapiz m[4]

  1. hemp

Inflection edit

i-stemDeclension of *hanapiz (i-stem)
singular plural
nominative *hanapiz *hanapīz
vocative *hanapi *hanapīz
accusative *hanapį *hanapinz
genitive *hanapīz *hanapijǫ̂
dative *hanapī *hanapimaz
instrumental *hanapī *hanapimiz

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 209
  2. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.v. "*xan(a)paz" (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003), 159.
  3. ^ Calvert Watkins, The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots: Third Edition, s.v. "kannabis" (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), 38.
  4. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297