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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lētaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to let (go), be tired”). Compare Latin lassus (“tired”), Albanian lodh, and possibly Ancient Greek ληδεῖν (lēdeîn, “to be tired”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛː.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*lētaną
- to let, to allow
- to leave alone
Inflection
Conjugation of *lētaną (strong class 7d)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *lētō | *lētaų | — | *lētai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *lētizi | *lētaiz | *lēt | *lētazai | *lētaizau |
| 3rd singular | *lētidi | *lētai | *lētadau | *lētadai | *lētaidau |
| 1st dual | *lētōz | *lētaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *lētadiz | *lētaidiz | *lētadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *lētamaz | *lētaim | — | *lētandai | *lētaindau |
| 2nd plural | *lētid | *lētaid | *lētid | *lētandai | *lētaindau |
| 3rd plural | *lētandi | *lētain | *lētandau | *lētandai | *lētaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *lelōt | *leltį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *lelōst | *leltīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *lelōt | *leltī | |||
| 1st dual | *leltū | *leltīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *leltudiz | *leltīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *leltum | *leltīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *leltud | *leltīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *leltun | *leltīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *lētandz | *lētanaz | |||
Derived terms
- *fralētaną
- *lētiz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *lātan
- Old English: lǣtan
- Middle English: leten, letten
- English: let
- Scots: lat, let, lete
- Yola: leth
- Middle English: leten, letten
- Old Frisian: lēta
- North Frisian: lete
- West Frisian: litte
- Old Saxon: lātan
- Middle Low German: lāten
- German Low German: laten, låten
- Middle Low German: lāten
- Old Dutch: lātan
- Middle Dutch: lâten
- Dutch: laten
- Afrikaans: laat
- Berbice Creole Dutch: latn
- Jersey Dutch: lâte
- Skepi Creole Dutch: at
- Limburgish: laote
- Dutch: laten
- Middle Dutch: lâten
- Old High German: lāzan, lāzzan
- Middle High German: lāzzen
- Alemannic German: laa, la, loo, lo, lou, lah
- Swabian: lau, lassa
- Central Franconian: loße, losse
- Hunsrik: losse
- East Central German: lossn
- German: lassen
- Luxembourgish: loossen
- Yiddish: לאָזן (lozn)
- Alemannic German: laa, la, loo, lo, lou, lah
- → Old French: laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier (in part)
- Middle French: laisser, laissier
- French: laisser
- → Breton: lezel
- French: laisser
- Norman: laîssi
- Picard: laissier
- → Middle English: *lesen
- English: lease
- → Dutch: leasen
- ⇒ English: leasing
- → Spanish: leasing
- → Finnish: leasing
- → Polish: leasing
- → Swedish: leasing
- Scots: lease
- → Middle Irish: léas
- Irish: léas
- English: lease
- Middle French: laisser, laissier
- Middle High German: lāzzen
- Old English: lǣtan
- Old Norse: láta
- Icelandic: láta
- Faroese: láta
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: la
- Norwegian Nynorsk: la, lata, late
- Elfdalian: låta
- Westrobothnian: låt; leta
- Old Swedish: lāta
- Swedish: låta
- Old Danish: latæ
- Danish: lade
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (lētan)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN