Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/regną

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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/regną

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

Unknown,[1] possibly from earlier *Hréģʰ-no-.[2] May be cognate with Latin rigō and Albanian rrjedh, but this is uncertain.[2]

Noun

*regną n

1. rain

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *regną (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*regną	*regnō
vocative	*regną	*regnō
accusative	*regną	*regnō
genitive	*regnas, *rignis	*regnǫ̂
dative	*rignai	*regnamaz
instrumental	*regnō	*regnamiz

Derived terms

• *regnabugô
• *regnawatōr
• *rignijaną
• *regnōną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *regn m
  • Old English: reġn, rēn, reġen
    • Middle English: ren, reȝn, reyn, rein
      • English: rain
      • Scots: rayn, rane
      • Yola: rhyne
  • Old Frisian: rein
    • Saterland Frisian: Rien
    • West Frisian: rein
  • Old Saxon: regan, regin
    • Middle Low German: rēgen
      • German Low German: Regen
      • Plautdietsch: Räajen
    • → Transylvanian Saxon: Reen
  • Old Dutch: regan
    • Middle Dutch: rēgen
      • Dutch: regen
        • Afrikaans: reën
        • Negerhollands: regen, regn, rign, regon
        • Skepi Creole Dutch: regen, ragin
      • Limburgish: raenger
      • West Flemish: rin, rein
  • Old High German: regan, regin
    • Middle High German: rëgen
      • Alemannic German:

        Alsatian: Raga

        Italian Walser: regu, räge, rägä

        Swabian: Räaga

      • Bavarian:

        Cimbrian: réego, regan, reng

        Mòcheno: reng

        Udinese: regn, rein

      • Central Franconian: Rään

        Hunsrik: Rehn

        Luxembourgish: Reen

      • East Central German:

        Erzgebirgisch: reeng [ˈɣeːŋ]

        Vilamovian: raan

      • German: Regen
      • Rhine Franconian: Raje, Raane, Räje, Rääche, Rään, Rääne, Rääsche, Reche, Ree, Reen, Reesche, Reje, Resche, Riin

        Frankfurterisch: Rääsche [ʀɛːʒ̥ə]

        Pennsylvania German: Regge

      • Yiddish: רעגן‎ (regn)
• Old Norse: regn
  • Icelandic: regn
  • Faroese: regn
  • Norn: regen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: regn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: regn
  • Westrobothnian: rägn, rängen, regen, reän
  • Old Swedish: ræghn
    • Swedish: regn
  • Danish: regn
  • Gutnish: regn
• East Germanic
  • Gothic: 𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌽 (rign)
  • Crimean Gothic: reghen

References

1. Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 296
2. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*regna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 408