Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stūpaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editRelated to *staupaz (“steep”) and *staupijaną (“to pour”), thus seeming to reflect a pre-Germanic root *stewb-. However, the rarity of *b in Proto-Indo-European and cognates such as Latin stupeō (“to be stunned”) make it more likely that the root was *stewp- (“to push, hit, knock”) with a semantic shift to “fall (over)”, and so Germanic *steup-, *stūp- could have been back-formed from earlier *stupp-, from pre-Germanic *stup-né(h₂)-; this process has been used to explain many other instances of root-final *p in Germanic. Compare also Proto-Germanic *stubbô, *stubbaz (“stump, stub”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*stūpaną[1]
Inflection
editConjugation of *stūpaną (strong class 2)
Related terms
editDerived terms
edit- *staupijaną (“to make fall”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*stūpanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 384