Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aiwijaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
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Verb
*aiwijaną[1]
- to graze
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *aiwijō | *aiwijaų | — | *aiwijai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *aiwīsi | *aiwijais | *aiwī | *aiwijasai | *aiwijaisau | |
| 3rd singular | *aiwīþi | *aiwijai | *aiwijaþau | *aiwijaþai | *aiwijaiþau | |
| 1st dual | *aiwijōs | *aiwijaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *aiwijaþiz | *aiwijaiþiz | *aiwijaþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *aiwijamaz | *aiwijaim | — | *aiwijanþai | *aiwijainþau | |
| 2nd plural | *aiwīþ | *aiwijaiþ | *aiwīþ | *aiwijanþai | *aiwijainþau | |
| 3rd plural | *aiwijanþi | *aiwijain | *aiwijanþau | *aiwijanþai | *aiwijainþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *aiwidǭ | *aiwidēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *aiwidēz | *aiwidēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *aiwidē | *aiwidēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *aiwidēdū | *aiwidēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *aiwidēdudiz | *aiwidēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *aiwidēdum | *aiwidēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *aiwidēdud | *aiwidēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *aiwidēdun | *aiwidēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *aiwijandz | *aiwidaz | ||||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *aiwijan
- Old Dutch: *ēwen
- Middle Dutch: *êwen
- Dutch: eeuwen
- Middle Dutch: *êwen
- Old Dutch: *ēwen
- Old Norse: æja
- Icelandic: æja
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aiwjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 16