Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skammijaną
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *skammaz (“short, blunt”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*skammijaną[1]
- to shorten
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *skammijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-West Germanic: *skammijan
- Old High German: skemmen
- Old Norse: skemma
- Icelandic: skemma
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*skammjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 333