Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hramjaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *hramō (“frame, rack”) + *-janą.
Verb
editInflection
editConjugation of *hramjaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *hrammjan
- >? Old Norse: hremma (“to grasp, clutch, seize”) (more likely a later derivative of Old Norse hrammr (“claw, paw”), from Proto-Germanic *hrammaz (“bent, curved”))
- Icelandic: hremma
- Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hramjan)
- →⇒? Medieval Latin: adchramiō, adchrammiō, adframiō (“to vow, swear, assure”) (alterantively from Frankish *hrammjan)
References
edit- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hraman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 242: “*hramjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*xram(m)janan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 184