Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sprittōną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Pre-Germanic *spritnéh₂-, a zero-grade iterative to *sprīþaną (“to break up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprit.tɔː.nɑ̃/

Verb

*sprittōną

1. to disperse

Inflection

The original Germanic paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *spritt- against non-singular *sprid-.

Conjugation of *sprittōną (weak class 2)

	active voice			passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*sprittō	*sprittǭ	—	*sprittōi	?
2nd singular	*sprittōsi	*sprittōs	*sprittō	*sprittōsai	*sprittōsau
3rd singular	*sprittōþi	*sprittō	*sprittōþau	*sprittōþai	*sprittōþau
1st dual	*sprittōs	*sprittōw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*sprittōþiz	*sprittōþiz	*sprittōþiz	—	—
1st plural	*sprittōmaz	*sprittōm	—	*sprittōnþai	*sprittōnþau
2nd plural	*sprittōþ	*sprittōþ	*sprittōþ	*sprittōnþai	*sprittōnþau
3rd plural	*sprittōnþi	*sprittōn	*sprittōnþau	*sprittōnþai	*sprittōnþau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*sprittōdǭ	*sprittōdēdį̄
2nd singular	*sprittōdēz	*sprittōdēdīz
3rd singular	*sprittōdē	*sprittōdēdī
1st dual	*sprittōdēdū	*sprittōdēdīw
2nd dual	*sprittōdēdudiz	*sprittōdēdīdiz
1st plural	*sprittōdēdum	*sprittōdēdīm
2nd plural	*sprittōdēdud	*sprittōdēdīd
3rd plural	*sprittōdēdun	*sprittōdēdīn
	present	past
participles	*sprittōndz	*sprittōdaz

Descendants

• Middle High German: sprützen
  • German: spritzen
  • Yiddish: שפּריצן (shpritsn)
    • → English: spritz
    • → Hebrew: הִשְׁפְּרִיץ (hishpríts)
• Norwegian: sprita

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470