Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mēlāną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Related to *mēlą (“stain, mark, spot”) + *-āną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*mēlāną[1]
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *mēlāną (weak class 3)
Alternative reconstructions edit
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *mālēn
- Old Norse: mála
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*mēljanan ~ *mēlēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 270
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mēla- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 182: “*mēlōjan-”