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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/knudaną

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

Etymology

An "aorist-present", from Pre-Germanic *gnét-, *gn̥t-, with remodeling of the zero-grade after the full-grade, from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (to compress). Related to Proto-Slavic *gnesti (to knead, press) (> Old Church Slavonic гнєсти (gnesti, to squeeze, press)[1]).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈknu.ðɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*knudaną

  1. to knead

Inflection

The present tense has the zero grade vowel -u- rather than -e-. The past participle might have had either.

Descendants

The West Germanic descendants have regularised the ablaut of this verb by replacing the -u- with -e-.

  • Proto-West Germanic: *knedan
    • Old English: cnedan
    • Old Frisian: *kneda
      • Saterland Frisian: kneede
      • West Frisian: knetsje
    • Old Saxon: knedan
    • Old Dutch: *knedan
    • Old High German: knetan
  • Old Norse: knoða
    • Icelandic: hnoða
    • Faroese: knoða
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: knode
    • Old Swedish: knodha

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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