Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dawjaną

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 edit

Etymology edit

Compared with Proto-Indo-European *dʰew-, and *dʰweh₂-, but Kroonen prefers to connect it with Hittite [script needed] (tuḫḫušzi, to end), from *dʰuH-.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɑu̯.jɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb edit

*dawjaną[1]

  1. to die

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

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Descendants edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*daujan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 90