Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spahōną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to see, to look, to observe”). Equivalent to *spahō (“a looking, peering, prophesy”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*spahōną[1]
- (North Germanic) to observe
Inflection
editConjugation of *spahōną (weak class 2)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Old Norse: spá
- Icelandic: spá
- Faroese: spáa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: spå
- Old Swedish: spā
- Swedish: spå
- Old Danish: spaa
- Danish: spå
- → Northern Middle English: spā
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*spexōjanan~*spaxōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 363
Categories:
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *speḱ-
- Proto-Germanic terms suffixed with *-ōną (denominative)
- Proto-Germanic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Proto-Germanic lemmas
- Proto-Germanic verbs
- North Proto-Germanic
- Proto-Germanic class 2 weak verbs