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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mōtaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mōd- (“to permit, make able”), lengthened o-grade form of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔː.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*mōtaną
- to be allowed, to be permitted to, may
Inflection
Conjugation of *mōtaną (preterite-present)
active voice | passive voice | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
1st singular | *mōt | *mōtį̄ | — | — | — |
2nd singular | *mōst | *mōtīz | — | — | — |
3rd singular | *mōt | *mōtī | — | — | — |
1st dual | *mōtū | *mōtīw | — | — | — |
2nd dual | *mōtudiz | *mōtīdiz | — | — | — |
1st plural | *mōtum | *mōtīm | — | — | — |
2nd plural | *mōtud | *mōtīd | — | — | — |
3rd plural | *mōtun | *mōtīn | — | — | — |
past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
1st singular | *mōsǭ | *mōsēdį̄ | |||
2nd singular | *mōsēz | *mōsēdīz | |||
3rd singular | *mōsē | *mōsēdī | |||
1st dual | *mōsēdū | *mōsēdīw | |||
2nd dual | *mōsēdudiz | *mōsēdīdiz | |||
1st plural | *mōsēdum | *mōsēdīm | |||
2nd plural | *mōsēdud | *mōsēdīd | |||
3rd plural | *mōsēdun | *mōsēdīn | |||
present | past | ||||
participles | *mōtandz | *mōsaz |
Descendants
- Old English: mōtan
- Middle English: moten
- Scots: mote, mot, moit
- English: mote
- ⇒ Old English: mōste (preterite)
- Middle English: moste
- Scots: moste, most, moist
- English: must
- Middle English: moste
- Middle English: moten
- Old Frisian: mōt (present tense)
- Old Saxon: mōtan
- Middle Low German: môten, moste (past)
- German Low German: möten
- → Old Swedish: most (late)
- Swedish: måste
- Middle Low German: môten, moste (past)
- Old Dutch: muotan
- Middle Dutch: moeten
- Dutch: moeten
- Afrikaans: moet
- → Sranan Tongo: moe
- Limburgish: mótte
- Dutch: moeten
- Middle Dutch: moeten
- Old High German: muozan
- Middle High German: muozen, müezen
- Alemannic German: müese, müesse
- Bavarian: miassn
- Cimbrian: missan
- Central Franconian: mösse, mosse, moße
- German: müssen
- Luxembourgish: mussen
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: misse
- Yiddish: מוזן (muzn)
- Middle High German: muozen, müezen
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (gamōtan)