Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hreudaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to heap up”) and cognate with Lithuanian kráuju, kráuti (“to put on top of each other”) and Proto-Slavic *krỳti (“to cover”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*hreudaną[2]
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *hreudaną (strong class 2)
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *hreudan
- Old English: hrēodan
- Old Norse: hrjóða (only attested in the past participle hroðinn)
References[edit]
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1513, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1513
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*xreuđanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186