Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spahōną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to see, to look, to observe”). Equivalent to *spahō (“a looking, peering, prophesy”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*spahōną[1]
- (North Germanic) to observe
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *spahōną (weak class 2)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old Norse: spá
- Icelandic: spá
- Faroese: spáa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: spå
- Old Swedish: spā
- Swedish: spå
- Old Danish: spaa
- Danish: spå
- Northern → Middle English: spā
- Scots: spae
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*spexōjanan~*spaxōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 363