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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blinkaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *bʰli-n-ǵ-, a nasal-infix present formed from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (whence also Proto-Germanic *blīkaną).[1]
Verb
*blinkaną
- to shine, glitter, twinkle
- to blink, wink
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- *blankaz
- *blankijaną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *blinkan
- Old English: *blincan
- Middle English: blenken, blynken
- English: blink
- → Norman: blyîntchi
- Scots: blink, blenk
- English: blink
- Middle English: blenken, blynken
- Old Frisian: *blinka
- ⇒ Saterland Frisian: blinkje (weak verb) (possibly from Low German)
- West Frisian: blinke (strong verb) (possibly from Dutch)
- Old Saxon: *blinkan
- Middle Low German: blinken (weak verb)
- German Low German: blinken
- → German: blinken
- → Norwegian: blinke
- → Swedish: blinka; (possibly also blänka)
- → Danish: blinke
- ⇒ Middle Low German: blinkeren
- German Low German: blinkern
- Middle Low German: blinken (weak verb)
- Old Dutch: *blinkan
- Middle Dutch: blinken (weak verb)
- Dutch: blinken (strong verb)
- Middle Dutch: blinken (weak verb)
- Old English: *blincan
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*blanka-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67