ᚹᚱᚨᛁᛏᚨ

Proto-Norse edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

ᚹᚱᚨᛁᛏᚨ (wraita /wraita/)

first-person singular past indicative of ᚹᚨᚱᛁᛏᚢ (waritu)
- 5th-6th century, Trollhättan II bracteate (IK 639)
  ᛖ[ᚴ]ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉᛗᚨᚱᛁᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉᚺᚨᛁᛏᛖᚹᚱᚨᛁᛏᚨᛚᚨᚦᛟ
  e[k]erilazmariþeubazhaitewraitalaþo
  ek erilaz, Mariþeubaz haitē, wraita laþō
  I, the Erilaz, [who] am called sea/glory-thief, wrote an invitation.

Usage notes edit

Since the a immediately following wrait is not easily explainable, it has been theorized by some authors^[1] that this is actually an archaic ending inherited from the Proto-Indo-European stative 1st singular indicative *-h₂e.

References edit

^ Elmer H., Antonsen (2002) Runes and Germanic Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), volume 140, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 27

[1] Elmer H., Antonsen (2002) Runes and Germanic Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), volume 140, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 27

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