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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blakrōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Possibly a direct cognate with Latin flagrō (“I burn”). Equivalent to *blakōną (“to burn, to blacken”) + *-rōną (“frequentative suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɑk.rɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*blakrōną[1]
- to flash
- to burn, to scorch
Inflection
Conjugation of *blakrōną (weak class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *blakrō | *blakrǭ | — | *blakrōi | *? |
| 2nd singular | *blakrōsi | *blakrōs | *blakrō | *blakrōsai | *blakrōsau |
| 3rd singular | *blakrōþi | *blakrō | *blakrōþau | *blakrōþai | *blakrōþau |
| 1st dual | *blakrōs | *blakrōw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *blakrōþiz | *blakrōþiz | *blakrōþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *blakrōmaz | *blakrōm | — | *blakrōnþai | *blakrōnþau |
| 2nd plural | *blakrōþ | *blakrōþ | *blakrōþ | *blakrōnþai | *blakrōnþau |
| 3rd plural | *blakrōnþi | *blakrōn | *blakrōnþau | *blakrōnþai | *blakrōnþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *blakrōdǭ | *blakrōdēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *blakrōdēz | *blakrōdēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *blakrōdē | *blakrōdēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *blakrōdēdū | *blakrōdēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *blakrōdēdudiz | *blakrōdēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *blakrōdēdum | *blakrōdēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *blakrōdēdud | *blakrōdēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *blakrōdēdun | *blakrōdēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *blakrōndz | *blakrōdaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *blakrōn
- Old Frisian: *blakria
- West Frisian: blakerje, bleakerje
- Old Dutch: *blakaron
- Middle Dutch: blākeren
- Dutch: blakeren
- Middle Dutch: blākeren
- Old Frisian: *blakria
- Old Norse: blakra
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: blakre
- Norwegian Nynorsk: blakre, blakra
- Norwegian:
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) , “*blakrōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 47