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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kewwaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (compare Latin gingīva (“gums”), Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“to eat”), Polish żuć (“to chew”), Persian جویدن (javidan), Pashto [script needed] (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkew.wɑ.nɑ̃/
Inflection
Conjugation of *kewwaną (strong class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *kewwō | *kewwaų | — | *kewwai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *kiwwizi | *kewwaiz | *keww | *kewwazai | *kewwaizau |
| 3rd singular | *kiwwidi | *kewwai | *kewwadau | *kewwadai | *kewwaidau |
| 1st dual | *kewwōz | *kewwaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *kewwadiz | *kewwaidiz | *kewwadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *kewwamaz | *kewwaim | — | *kewwandai | *kewwaindau |
| 2nd plural | *kiwwid | *kewwaid | *kiwwid | *kewwandai | *kewwaindau |
| 3rd plural | *kewwandi | *kewwain | *kewwandau | *kewwandai | *kewwaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *kau(w) | *kuwį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *kau(w)t | *kuwīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *kau(w) | *kuwī | |||
| 1st dual | *kuwū | *kuwīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *kuwudiz | *kuwīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *kuwum | *kuwīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *kuwud | *kuwīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *kuwun | *kuwīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *kewwandz | *kuwanaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *keuwan
- Old Norse: tyggja, tyggva (< *kjuwwa; t- maybe from synonym tǫgla or from dissimilation)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kewwan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 286-287
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*kewwanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 213
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