Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/munāną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *munaną (“to think, consider”) + *-āną or *muniz (“mind, desire”) + *-āną.
Verb
edit*munāną[1]
Inflection
editConjugation of *munāną (weak class 3)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *munēn
- Old English: mynian (with unexpected umlaut, possibly backformed to the noun)
- Old Norse: muna (only the weak inflected forms)
- Gothic: munān
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*munēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276