Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hneudaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Compare *knudaną (“to rivet, knead”), source of Old Norse hnoða (“to rivet”). Also compared to Ancient Greek κνύθος (knúthos, “small thorn”), but Kroonen finds this semantically unconvincing.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *hneudaną (strong class 2)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hneudan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*xneuđanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 179-180