Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hreudaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to heap up”) and cognate with Lithuanian kráuju, kráuti (“to put on top of each other”) and Proto-Slavic *krỳti (“to cover”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*hreudaną[2]
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *hreudaną (strong class 2)
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *hreudan
- Old English: hrēodan
- Old Norse: hrjóða (only attested in the past participle hroðinn)
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1513, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1513
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*xreuđanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186