Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spanjaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
*spanjaną[1]
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *spanjaną (weak class 1)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From *spanō (“nipple”) + *-janą.
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
*spanjaną
- to wean
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *spanjaną (weak class 1)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Note: Some descendants show interference with related verbs *spanōną, *spenōną, and *spunōną.
- Proto-West Germanic: *spannjan, *spinnjan, *spunnjan
- Old Saxon: spennian
- Old Dutch: *spennen
- → Old French: espanir
- Old High German: *spennen
- Middle High German: *spennen, spenen
- German: spänen (dialectal)
- ⇒ Middle High German: *abespennen, abespenen
- ⇒ Old High German: bispennen
- Middle High German: *bespennen, bespenen
- ⇒ Old High German: intspennen, inspennen
- Middle High German: entspennen, entspenen
- Middle High German: *spennen, spenen
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*spanjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 362