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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ganhāną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain. Compare *ganhatjaną.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɣɑ̃ː.xɑː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*ganhāną
- (North Germanic) to inspect; to take into account
Inflection
Conjugation of *ganhāną (weak class 3)
active voice | passive voice | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
1st singular | *ganhō | ? | — | ? | ? |
2nd singular | *ganhaisi | ? | *ganhai | *ganhāsai | ? |
3rd singular | *ganhaiþi | ? | *ganhāþau | *ganhāþai | ? |
1st dual | *ganhōs | ? | — | — | — |
2nd dual | *ganhāþiz | ? | *ganhāþiz | — | — |
1st plural | *ganhāmaz | ? | — | *ganhānþai | ? |
2nd plural | *ganhaiþ | ? | *ganhaiþ | *ganhānþai | ? |
3rd plural | *ganhānþi | ? | *ganhānþau | *ganhānþai | ? |
past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
1st singular | *ganhadǭ | *ganhadēdį̄ | |||
2nd singular | *ganhadēz | *ganhadēdīz | |||
3rd singular | *ganhadē | *ganhadēdī | |||
1st dual | *ganhadēdū | *ganhadēdīw | |||
2nd dual | *ganhadēdudiz | *ganhadēdīdiz | |||
1st plural | *ganhadēdum | *ganhadēdīm | |||
2nd plural | *ganhadēdud | *ganhadēdīd | |||
3rd plural | *ganhadēdun | *ganhadēdīn | |||
present | past | ||||
participles | *ganhāndz | *ganhadaz |
Related terms
- *ganhatjaną
Descendants
- Old Norse: gá
- Icelandic: gá
- Faroese: gáa
- Elfdalian: gą̊
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ganhēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 167