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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/knuttijaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *knuttô (“knot”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈknut.ti.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*knuttijaną[1]
- to bind into a knot
- to tie with a knot
Inflection
Conjugation of *knuttijaną (weak class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *knuttijō | *knuttijaų | — | *knuttijai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *knuttīsi | *knuttijais | *knuttī | *knuttijasai | *knuttijaisau |
| 3rd singular | *knuttīþi | *knuttijai | *knuttijaþau | *knuttijaþai | *knuttijaiþau |
| 1st dual | *knuttijōs | *knuttijaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *knuttijaþiz | *knuttijaiþiz | *knuttijaþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *knuttijamaz | *knuttijaim | — | *knuttijanþai | *knuttijainþau |
| 2nd plural | *knuttīþ | *knuttijaiþ | *knuttīþ | *knuttijanþai | *knuttijainþau |
| 3rd plural | *knuttijanþi | *knuttijain | *knuttijanþau | *knuttijanþai | *knuttijainþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *knuttidǭ | *knuttidēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *knuttidēz | *knuttidēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *knuttidē | *knuttidēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *knuttidēdū | *knuttidēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *knuttidēdudiz | *knuttidēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *knuttidēdum | *knuttidēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *knuttidēdud | *knuttidēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *knuttidēdun | *knuttidēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *knuttijandz | *knuttidaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *knuttijan
- Old English: cnyttan, cnittan
- Middle English: knytten, knutten, knetten, knitten
- English: knit
- Scots: knyt, knit
- Middle English: knytten, knutten, knetten, knitten
- Old Saxon: *knuttian
- Middle Low German: knütten
- Old Dutch: *knutten
- Middle Dutch: cnutten
- Dutch: knutten (dialectal)
- Middle Dutch: cnutten
- Old English: cnyttan, cnittan
- Old Norse: knytja, knyta
- Icelandic: knýta, hnýta
- Faroese: knýta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: knyte, knyta
- Swedish: knyta
- Danish: knytte
- Norwegian Bokmål: knytte
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*knut(t)janan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 219