Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dintaną

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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Pronunciation

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Verb

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*dintaną[1][2]

  1. to fall, hit

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Old Norse: detta

References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*dentanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012