Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sīganą
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editAccording to Orel, a variant of *sīhwaną, which is from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out; gush; flow; run; trickle”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “why was it delabialized?”)
Verb
edit*sīganą[1]
Inflection
editConjugation of *sīganą (strong class 1)
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*sīʒ(w)anan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 329