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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dimmōną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *dimmaz (“dim, dark”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdim.mɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*dimmōną[1]
- to dim, to darken
- to obscure
Inflection
Conjugation of *dimmōną (weak class 2)
active voice | passive voice | ||||
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present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
1st singular | *dimmō | *dimmǭ | — | *dimmōi | *? |
2nd singular | *dimmōsi | *dimmōs | *dimmō | *dimmōsai | *dimmōsau |
3rd singular | *dimmōþi | *dimmō | *dimmōþau | *dimmōþai | *dimmōþau |
1st dual | *dimmōs | *dimmōw | — | — | — |
2nd dual | *dimmōþiz | *dimmōþiz | *dimmōþiz | — | — |
1st plural | *dimmōmaz | *dimmōm | — | *dimmōnþai | *dimmōnþau |
2nd plural | *dimmōþ | *dimmōþ | *dimmōþ | *dimmōnþai | *dimmōnþau |
3rd plural | *dimmōnþi | *dimmōn | *dimmōnþau | *dimmōnþai | *dimmōnþau |
past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
1st singular | *dimmōdǭ | *dimmōdēdį̄ | |||
2nd singular | *dimmōdēz | *dimmōdēdīz | |||
3rd singular | *dimmōdē | *dimmōdēdī | |||
1st dual | *dimmōdēdū | *dimmōdēdīw | |||
2nd dual | *dimmōdēdudiz | *dimmōdēdīdiz | |||
1st plural | *dimmōdēdum | *dimmōdēdīm | |||
2nd plural | *dimmōdēdud | *dimmōdēdīd | |||
3rd plural | *dimmōdēdun | *dimmōdēdīn | |||
present | past | ||||
participles | *dimmōndz | *dimmōdaz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *dimmōn
- English: dimmian
- Middle English: dimmen
- English: dim
- → Dutch: dimmen
- → German: dimmen
- English: dim
- Middle English: dimmen
- English: dimmian
- Old Norse: dimma
- Icelandic: dimma
- Faroese: dimma
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: dimme
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dimme, dimma
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) , “*demmōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 70