Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plehan
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown.[1][2] Compare perhaps Middle High German spulgen (“to be used to”).[3]
Verb[edit]
- to stand up for
- to be responsible for
Inflection[edit]
| Strong class 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *plehan | |
| 1st sg. past | *plah | |
| 3rd pl. past | *plāgun | |
| Past ptcple | *plegan | |
| Infinitive | *plehan | |
| Genitive infin. | *plehannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *plehannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *plehannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *plehu | *plah |
| 2nd singular | *plihiʀi | *plāgī |
| 3rd singular | *plihidi | *plah |
| 1st plural | *plehum | *plāgum |
| 2nd plural | *plihid | *plāgud |
| 3rd plural | *plehand | *plāgun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *plehē | *plāgī |
| 2nd singular | *plehēs | *plāgī |
| 3rd singular | *plehē | *plāgī |
| 1st plural | *plehēm | *plāgīm |
| 2nd plural | *plehēþ | *plāgīd |
| 3rd plural | *plehēn | *plāgīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *plih | |
| Plural | *plihid | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *plehandī | *plegan |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Old English: plēon, pleġan
- Old Frisian: plega; plegia, pligia
- Old Saxon: plegan
- Old Dutch: *plian
- Middle Dutch: plien
- Old Dutch: plegan
- Old High German: plegan, pflegan, phlegan
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*pleʒanan ~ *plexanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 292
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “pflegen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 541: “wg. *pleg-a-”
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*plehan- - *plegan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*plehan”