Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hneusaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *pnew-, but presumably interpreted as onomatopoeic judging from the variety in the initial consonants. Forms with initial h- may show interference from Proto-Indo-European *(s)knus- (“to sneeze”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*hneusaną[1]
- to sneeze
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *hneusaną (strong class 2)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*xneusanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 180