Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hīgōną
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Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey(H)gʰ- (“to move quickly, jump; swift, fierce”),[1] thereby cognate with e.g. Russian сига́ть (sigátʹ, “to spring, jump”) (Proto-Slavic *sigáti) and maybe Sanskrit शीघ्र (śīghrá-, “quick, fast”); if so, Old English may preserve the original sense. Further derived from *ḱey- (“to move”); compare Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*hīgōną
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *hīgōną (weak class 2)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *hīgōn
- Old Norse: *híga; (hexta)
References edit
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 303: “*k̂eigh- ‘fast’”