< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hittijaną
 | This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall upon; encounter; hit; cut; hew”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxit.ti.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*hittijaną[1]
- To encounter; meet with; make contact; hit
Inflection
Conjugation of *hittijaną (weak class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *hittijō | *hittijaų | — | *hittijai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *hittīsi | *hittijais | *hittī | *hittijasai | *hittijaisau |
| 3rd singular | *hittīþi | *hittijai | *hittijaþau | *hittijaþai | *hittijaiþau |
| 1st dual | *hittijōs | *hittijaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *hittijaþiz | *hittijaiþiz | *hittijaþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *hittijamaz | *hittijaim | — | *hittijanþai | *hittijainþau |
| 2nd plural | *hittīþ | *hittijaiþ | *hittīþ | *hittijanþai | *hittijainþau |
| 3rd plural | *hittijanþi | *hittijain | *hittijanþau | *hittijanþai | *hittijainþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *hittidǭ | *hittidēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *hittidēz | *hittidēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *hittidē | *hittidēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *hittidēdū | *hittidēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *hittidēdudiz | *hittidēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *hittidēdum | *hittidēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *hittidēdud | *hittidēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *hittidēdun | *hittidēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *hittijandz | *hittidaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hittijan
- Old English: hittan (possibly from Old Norse instead)
- Middle English: hitten
- English: hit
- Scots: hit
- Middle English: hitten
- Old Dutch: *hitten
- Middle Dutch: hitten
- Old English: hittan (possibly from Old Norse instead)
- Old Norse: hitta
- Icelandic: hitta
- Faroese: hitta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hitta
- Norwegian Bokmål: hitte
- Swedish: hitta
- Danish: hitte
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hittjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 227