Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hnīpaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *kneybʰ-. The root final -p was adopted from the iterative *hnippōną.
Likely related to *knīpaną, but it's unclear how the variation of the initial consonant arose.
Verb edit
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *hnīpaną (strong class 1)
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *hnīpan