Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bitōną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *bitô (“piece, bit, chunk”) + *-ōną,[1] or of iterative origin.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*bitōną[1]
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *bitōną (weak class 2)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *bitōn
- Old English: *bitian
- ⇒ Old English: gristbitian
- Middle English: grisbiten, grysbetten (merged with descendant of *gristbittan)
- English: gristbite
- Middle English: grisbiten, grysbetten (merged with descendant of *gristbittan)
- ⇒ Old English: gristbitian
- Old High German: *bizōn, *bizzōn
- ⇒ Old High German: inbizōn, imbizōn
- ⇒? Middle High German: durchbitzen
- Old English: *bitian
- Old Norse: bita
- Icelandic: bita
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*bitōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 45
- ^ Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012, pages 198, *bit(t)ōn