Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/giftijaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *giftiz (“gift”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*giftijaną[1]
- (transitive, +accusative) to gift, give (something)
- (transitive, +dative) to give a gift to
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *giftijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ʒeftijanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 130