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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nēhwāną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *nēhwaz (“near, close”) + *-āną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɛː.xʷɑː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*nēhwāną[1]
- to come closer, to approach
Inflection
Conjugation of *nēhwāną (weak class 3)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *nēhwō | *? | — | *? | *? |
| 2nd singular | *nēhwaisi | *? | *nēhwai | *nēhwāsai | *? |
| 3rd singular | *nēhwaiþi | *? | *nēhwāþau | *nēhwāþai | *? |
| 1st dual | *nēhwōs | *? | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *nēhwāþiz | *? | *nēhwāþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *nēhwāmaz | *? | — | *nēhwānþai | *? |
| 2nd plural | *nēhwaiþ | *? | *nēhwaiþ | *nēhwānþai | *? |
| 3rd plural | *nēhwānþi | *? | *nēhwānþau | *nēhwānþai | *? |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *nēhwadǭ | *nēhwadēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *nēhwadēz | *nēhwadēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *nēhwadē | *nēhwadēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *nēhwadēdū | *nēhwadēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *nēhwadēdudiz | *nēhwadēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *nēhwadēdum | *nēhwadēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *nēhwadēdud | *nēhwadēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *nēhwadēdun | *nēhwadēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *nēhwāndz | *nēhwadaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *nāhwēn
- Old English: *nēahian, *nēahwian
- ⇒ Old English: genēahian, genēahwian
- Middle English: neighen
- English: nigh
- Old Saxon: *nāhōn
- Middle Low German: nâgen
- Old Dutch: *nāhon
- Middle Dutch: nâen
- Old High German: nāhēn
- Middle High German: nahen
- German: nahen
- Middle High German: nahen
- Old English: *nēahian, *nēahwian
- Old Norse: ná
- Icelandic: ná
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: nå
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nå
- Swedish: nå
- Danish: nå
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) , “*nēxwēnan ~ *nēxwjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 286