Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/munāną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *munaną (“to think, consider”) + *-āną or *muniz (“mind, desire”) + *-āną.
Verb edit
*munāną[1]
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *munāną (weak class 3)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *munēn
- Old English: mynian (with unexpected umlaut, possibly backformed to the noun)
- Old Norse: muna (only the weak inflected forms)
- Gothic: munān
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*munēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276