Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skammijaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *skammaz (“short, blunt”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*skammijaną[1]
- to shorten
Inflection
editConjugation of *skammijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *skammijan
- Old High German: skemmen
- Old Norse: skemma
- Icelandic: skemma
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*skammjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 333