Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brimmaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make noise”). This verb is closely related to *bremaną, the geminate 'm' in the root seems to have arisen due to the influence of the iterative verb *brummōną.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *brimmaną (strong class 3)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *brimman
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*breman- ~ *brimman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*brem(m)anan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 55