Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ammōną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

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Etymology

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From earlier paradigm *ammōþi ~ *amunanþi, from pre-Proto-Germanic *am-nā́-ti ~ *am-un-ánti, iterative from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (to insist, urge).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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*ammōną[1]

  1. (North Germanic) to irritate, bother

Inflection

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The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *amm- against non-singular *am-.

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Descendants

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  • Old Norse: ama

References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*am(m)ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24