ai̯tenă
Polabian
Alternative forms
- ai̯tenə (typography)
- ai̯tnă (reading)
Etymology
From ai̯tă + -en-.
Verb
ai̯tenă (nominative plural)
- father's
Notes
Due to inconsistent spelling in the historical text, it is also possible to read the word as ai̯tnă.
References
- Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński; Kazimierz Polański (1962), “ai̯tenə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological dictionary of the Polabian Drevani language] (in Polish), volume 1: A — Ďüzd, Wrocław – Warszawa – Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 15
- Kazimierz Polański; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “ai̯tenă”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 34