Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/witan

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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *witaną.

Verb

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*witan[1]

  1. to know

Inflection

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*wait, *waist, *witun, *wissā, *witan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109:*witan