Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/framjaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *framaz + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *pró-mo-s, from *pró (“toward, leading to”).[1] Compare Latin framea (“spear”) probably from *framjō (literally “forward going one”).[2]
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*framjaną
Inflection
editConjugation of *framjaną (weak class 1)
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*framjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 111
- ^ Rübekeil, Ludwig (2017–2018) “Chapter IX: Germanic”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The dialectology of Germanic, page 990