Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ninþaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Pre-Germanic *nent-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nant- (“to fight, dare”).[1][2] Related to Old Irish néit (“battle, combat”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *ninþaną (strong class 3)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 755, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 755
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 201
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ninþan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 391
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*nenþanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 284