Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/galdijaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *galdijaz (“barren, fruitless, castrated”) + *-janą (“factitive suffix”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *galdijaną (weak class 1)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- >? Proto-West Germanic: *galtijan (unclear why West Germanic descendants have a 't')
- Old Norse: gelda
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gald(j)a-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164: “*galdjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ʒalđjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 124