Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwirkijaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *kwerkō (“throat”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
- to strangle
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *kwirkijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *kwirkijan
- Old Norse: kvirkja, kyrkja
- → Proto-Finnic: *kurgistadak (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kwerkō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*kwerkjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*kwerkjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 228