Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wakaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, be awake, be fresh, be cheerful”). Cognate with Latin vegeō (“be quick, be aroused, be alert”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *wakaną (strong class 6)
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Seebold, Elmar (1970) “WAK-NA-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 535
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wakan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*waknēnan ~ *waknōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 441: “*wakanan”