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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sinnaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From earlier *sennaną, *senþnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sent-n-, from *sent- (“to feel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsin.nɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*sinnaną[1]
- to feel
- to sense direction
- to consider, think about; aim, plan, plot
Inflection
Conjugation of *sinnaną (strong class 3)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *sinnō | *sinnaų | — | *sinnai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *sinnizi | *sinnaiz | *sinn | *sinnazai | *sinnaizau |
| 3rd singular | *sinnidi | *sinnai | *sinnadau | *sinnadai | *sinnaidau |
| 1st dual | *sinnōz | *sinnaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *sinnadiz | *sinnaidiz | *sinnadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *sinnamaz | *sinnaim | — | *sinnandai | *sinnaindau |
| 2nd plural | *sinnid | *sinnaid | *sinnid | *sinnandai | *sinnaindau |
| 3rd plural | *sinnandi | *sinnain | *sinnandau | *sinnandai | *sinnaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *sann | *sunnį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *sannt | *sunnīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *sann | *sunnī | |||
| 1st dual | *sunnū | *sunnīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *sunnudiz | *sunnīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *sunnum | *sunnīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *sunnud | *sunnīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *sunnun | *sunnīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *sinnandz | *sunnanaz | |||
Related terms
- *sandijaną
- *sinþaną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *sinnan
- Old English: sinnan
- Old Frisian: sinna
- Saterland Frisian: sinne
- (West Frisian: sinnigje)
- Old Saxon: *sinnan
- Middle Low German: sinnen
- → Old Norse: sinna
- Icelandic: sinna
- Swedish: besinna
- → Old Norse: sinna
- Middle Low German: sinnen
- Old Dutch: *sinnan
- Middle Dutch: sinnen
- Dutch: zinnen
- Middle Dutch: sinnen
- Old High German: sinnan
- Middle High German: sinnen
- German: sinnen
- Middle High German: sinnen
- →⇒ Old French: *sener (in asener, forsener)
- Middle French: assener, forcener
- (French: assener, forcener)
- → Italian: senno, assennare
- Middle French: assener, forcener
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*sinnan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437