Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/argijaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *argaz (“unworthy, cowardly”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*argijaną[1]
Inflection
editConjugation of *argijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *argijan
- Old Norse: *ergja (only attested in the passive, ergjask (“to become a coward”))
- Icelandic: ergja
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*arʒjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23