Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/obanā
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *ubanē. Equivalent to *ob (“under”) + *-anā (ablative adverb suffix).
Adverb edit
*obanā
Derived terms edit
Usage notes edit
Because of the irregular forms between some of the directional adverbs and preposition, *ob- and *upp-, some of the daughter languages show leveling.[1]
Descendants edit
- Old English: ufan, ufane
- Middle English: uven
- Old Frisian: ova, with -pp- uppa, oppa (also uppe, oppe, but these might be from *uppai instead)
- Old Saxon: ovan, ovana, with -pp- uppan
- Old Dutch: uppan (with -pp-)
- Old High German: obana, ūfana, *ovana
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN