Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ahjaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editUncertain. Has been compared to *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”) (by Osthoff) and to Ancient Greek ὄκνος (óknos, “hesitation”) (by Pokorny). Kroonen instead suggests it could be identical to *ahjaną (“to graze”), whence Old Norse æja, if the intermediate meaning was “to ruminate”, except for the fact that he reconstructs that verb as *aiwjaną.[1]
Verb
edit*ahjaną[1]
- to think
Inflection
editConjugation of *ahjaną (weak class 1)