Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/drunjaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *drunjuz (“sound”) + *-janą.
Per Vasmer, perhaps ultimately from imitative Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēu- (“to drone”); see also Sanskrit ध्रणति (dhráṇati, “to sound”), Old Irish drésacht (“crackling, noise”), German trensen (“to make heavy sounds from the vocal cords”), Dutch drenzen (“to moan”), Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “lamentation for the deceased”), English drone, Old Prussian droanse (“corncrake”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌿𐍃 (drunjus, “sound”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*drunjaną[4]
Inflection
editConjugation of *drunjaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дрязги”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “dreunen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “255-256”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 255-256
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*drunjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 77