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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blaikijaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *blaikaz (“pale”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɑi̯.ki.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*blaikijaną[1]
- to bleach, to make pale, to whiten
Inflection
Conjugation of *blaikijaną (weak class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *blaikijō | *blaikijaų | — | *blaikijai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *blaikīsi | *blaikijais | *blaikī | *blaikijasai | *blaikijaisau |
| 3rd singular | *blaikīþi | *blaikijai | *blaikijaþau | *blaikijaþai | *blaikijaiþau |
| 1st dual | *blaikijōs | *blaikijaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *blaikijaþiz | *blaikijaiþiz | *blaikijaþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *blaikijamaz | *blaikijaim | — | *blaikijanþai | *blaikijainþau |
| 2nd plural | *blaikīþ | *blaikijaiþ | *blaikīþ | *blaikijanþai | *blaikijainþau |
| 3rd plural | *blaikijanþi | *blaikijain | *blaikijanþau | *blaikijanþai | *blaikijainþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *blaikidǭ | *blaikidēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *blaikidēz | *blaikidēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *blaikidē | *blaikidēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *blaikidēdū | *blaikidēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *blaikidēdudiz | *blaikidēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *blaikidēdum | *blaikidēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *blaikidēdud | *blaikidēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *blaikidēdun | *blaikidēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *blaikijandz | *blaikidaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *blaikijan
- Old English: blǣċan
- Middle English: blechen, bleken
- English: bleach
- Scots: bleche, bleitch
- Yola: ee-blighte (ppl.)
- Middle English: blechen, bleken
- Old Saxon: blēkian
- Middle Low German: blēken, bleiken
- Low German: bleken
- Middle Low German: blēken, bleiken
- Old Dutch: *blēken
- Middle Dutch: bleken
- Dutch: bleken, bleiken
- Afrikaans: bleik
- Dutch: bleken, bleiken
- Middle Dutch: bleken
- Old High German: bleihhen
- Middle High German: bleichen
- German: bleichen (merged with *blīkaną)
- Luxembourgish: bleechen
- Middle High German: bleichen
- Old English: blǣċan
- Old Norse: bleikja
- Icelandic: bleikja
- Faroese: bleikja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bleikja
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bleike
- Old Swedish: blēkia
- Swedish: bleka
- Danish: blege
- Norwegian Bokmål: bleke
- →? Proto-Finnic: *leik'at'ak (see there for further descendants)
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*blaikjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 47