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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/faþmōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *faþmaz (“fathom, outstretched arms”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɸɑθ.mɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*faþmōną[1][2]
- to fathom, to measure with outstretched arms
- to embrace, to hug
Inflection
Conjugation of *faþmōną (weak class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *faþmō | *faþmǭ | — | *faþmōi | ? |
| 2nd singular | *faþmōsi | *faþmōs | *faþmō | *faþmōsai | *faþmōsau |
| 3rd singular | *faþmōþi | *faþmō | *faþmōþau | *faþmōþai | *faþmōþau |
| 1st dual | *faþmōs | *faþmōw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *faþmōþiz | *faþmōþiz | *faþmōþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *faþmōmaz | *faþmōm | — | *faþmōnþai | *faþmōnþau |
| 2nd plural | *faþmōþ | *faþmōþ | *faþmōþ | *faþmōnþai | *faþmōnþau |
| 3rd plural | *faþmōnþi | *faþmōn | *faþmōnþau | *faþmōnþai | *faþmōnþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *faþmōdǭ | *faþmōdēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *faþmōdēz | *faþmōdēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *faþmōdē | *faþmōdēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *faþmōdēdū | *faþmōdēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *faþmōdēdudiz | *faþmōdēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *faþmōdēdum | *faþmōdēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *faþmōdēdud | *faþmōdēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *faþmōdēdun | *faþmōdēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *faþmōndz | *faþmōdaz | |||
Related terms
- *faþmijaną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *faþmōn
- Old English: fæðmian
- Middle English:
- English: fathom
- Middle English:
- Old Dutch: *fathmon
- Middle Dutch: vademen
- Dutch: vademen
- Middle Dutch: vademen
- Old High German: fadamōn
- Old English: fæðmian
- Old Norse: faðma
- Icelandic: faðma
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: favne
- Nynorsk: famne, famna
- Swedish: famna
- Danish: favne
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*faþma-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 132: “*faþmōjan-”
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*faþmōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 95