Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wōpijaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, shout, complain”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *vabiti (“to lure”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*wōpijaną
Inflection
editThe evolution of this verb's conjugation is unusual and controversial. Unlike usual expectations, it is weak in Gothic and strong class 7 with a reduplicated preterite in Old English. Orel and Ringe disagree on how this situation arose.
- Orel believes that there were two separate, but related homophonous verbs in Proto-Germanic, with the weak verb being the *-janą derivative of the strong one.
- Ringe believes that independently, Old Norse and Gothic made the strong verb weak due to analogy.
- Kroonen makes no comment about this verb's paradigm, and in fact the verb is not mentioned at all in his Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic.
Conjugation of *wōpijaną (strong class 7 j-present)
Conjugation of *wōpijaną (weak class 1)