Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þananā
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *þan (“then”) + *-anā (ablative suffix).
Adverb edit
*þananā
Usage notes edit
- The geminate -nn- in Middle English and Middle High German is either by analogy with *þannē or due to contraction of the medial vowel (with subsequent restitution of the suffix based on uncontracted forms).
Descendants edit
- Old English: þanan, þanon, þanone, þonan
- Old Frisian: thana
- Old Saxon: thanan, thanana
- Old Dutch: *thanana
- Old High German: danān, danana
References edit
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*þananē̆”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416