|
|
This Proto-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-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂e(ḱ)-on-eh₂-, from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).[1] See also *ahaz (“ear (of grains)”) and Latin agna (“ear (of grains)”).
Noun
*ahanō f[1]
- chaff, awns
- Synonyms: *baraz (“awn?”), *kafą (“chaff”)
Inflection
Declension of *ahanō (ō-stem)
|
|
singular
|
plural
|
| nominative
|
*ahanō
|
*ahanôz
|
| vocative
|
*ahanō
|
*ahanôz
|
| accusative
|
*ahanǭ
|
*ahanōz
|
| genitive
|
*ahanōz
|
*ahanǫ̂
|
| dative
|
*ahanōi
|
*ahanōmaz
|
| instrumental
|
*ahanō
|
*ahanōmiz
|
Descendants
- Old English: agnu, aegne, egenu
- Old High German: agana, agena, agina
- Middle High German: agene
- Old Norse: ǫgn
- Icelandic: ögn
- Faroese: øgn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: agn, ogn
- Norwegian Bokmål: agn
- Old Danish: aghn
- Danish: avne
- → North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: aagen
- Mooring-Sylt:
- Mooring: åågene
- Sylt: Aagen
- Wiedingharde: aagene
- Swedish: agn
- Elfdalian: aungen
- →? Middle English: awne, agune, auene, aune, awene, awun
- English: awn; awns
- Scots: yawin, yavin, yewn
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ahana)
- → Proto-Finnic: *akana (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ahanō- ~ *aganō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 5