Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-ōjan

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Reanalysed from *-ōn based on the first and third class of weak verbs.

Suffix

*-ōjan

1. (North Sea Germanic) Alternative form of *-ōn

Descendants

• Old English: -ian
  • Middle English: -ien, -en (merged with all other verbs)
    • English: -en, -e (obsolete)
    • Scots: -e (obsolete)
• Old Frisian: -ia
  • North Frisian: -je
  • Saterland Frisian: -je
  • West Frisian: -je
• Old Saxon: -oian
  • Middle Low German: -en
    • German Low German: -en
    • Dutch Low Saxon: -en
    • Plautdietsch: -en

Further reading

• Sehrt, Edward H. (1940) “The Long Forms of ōn-Verbs in Old Saxon”, in Language, volume 16, number 2, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI