Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/maganōną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editDerived from *maganą (“power, a variant of *maginą”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*maganōną
- to strengthen
Inflection
editConjugation of *maganōną (weak class 2)
Alternative forms
editDescendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *maganōn
- Old English: *magnian
- ⇒ Old English: gemagnian
- Old High German: *maganōn
- ⇒ Old High German: ubarmaganōn
- Old English: *magnian
- Old Norse: magna
- Icelandic: magna
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*maʒenōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253