Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/twitwizōną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editUnknown. Likely onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*twitwizōną
Inflection
editConjugation of *twitwizōną (weak class 2)
Descendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *twitwiʀōn
- Old English: *twiterian, *twitrian
- Old Dutch: *twiteron, *kwiteron (possible dissimilation)
- Middle Dutch: *quēteren (attested in quēteringhe)
- Old High German: zwizzirōn, zwizerōn
- Middle High German: zwitzern
- German: zwitzern, zwitschern
- Luxembourgish: zwitscheren
- Middle High German: zwitzern
- Old Norse: *tvitra, *kvitra