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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aiganaz

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯.ɣɑ.nɑz/

Participle

*aiganaz

  1. past participle of *aiganą

Adjective

*aiganaz[1]

  1. own

Inflection


Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *aigan
    • Old English: āgan
      • Middle English: owen, ouen, own, owe, awen, aȝen
        • English: owe (present tense), ought (past tense), own (past participle)
        • Scots: aw, awe
    • Old Frisian: āga, hāga
      • North Frisian: age
    • Old Saxon: ēgan
    • Old Dutch: *ēgan
    • Old High German: eigan
      • Middle High German: eigen
  • Old Norse: eiginn
    • Icelandic: eiginn
    • Faroese: egin
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: eigen
      • Norwegian Bokmål: eigen
    • Elfdalian: iegen
    • Old Swedish: ēghin
    • Danish: egen
      • Norwegian Bokmål: egen

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aigena-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 8
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