Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tinnaną
Proto-Germanic
editAlternative forms
edit- *tinþaną (?)
Etymology
editFrom Pre-Germanic *dendʰneti. The ultimate origin is unclear, as solid cognates outside of Germanic are lacking.[1] Osthoff suggests Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“kindle, burn”) (Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō)), but Pokorny rejects this.[2]
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*tinnaną[3]
- to burn
Inflection
editConjugation of *tinnaną (strong class 3)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *tinnan
References
edit- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “zünden”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “179-81”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 179-81
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*tinnan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518