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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skurtāną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *skurtaz + *-āną.
Verb
*skurtāną[1]
- to be short
- to lack
Inflection
Conjugation of *skurtāną (weak class 3)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *skurtō | ? | — | ? | ? |
| 2nd singular | *skurtaisi | ? | *skurtai | *skurtāsai | ? |
| 3rd singular | *skurtaiþi | ? | *skurtāþau | *skurtāþai | ? |
| 1st dual | *skurtōs | ? | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *skurtāþiz | ? | *skurtāþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *skurtāmaz | ? | — | *skurtānþai | ? |
| 2nd plural | *skurtaiþ | ? | *skurtaiþ | *skurtānþai | ? |
| 3rd plural | *skurtānþi | ? | *skurtānþau | *skurtānþai | ? |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *skurtadǭ | *skurtadēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *skurtadēz | *skurtadēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *skurtadē | *skurtadēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *skurtadēdū | *skurtadēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *skurtadēdudiz | *skurtadēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *skurtadēdum | *skurtadēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *skurtadēdud | *skurtadēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *skurtadēdun | *skurtadēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *skurtāndz | *skurtadaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *skurtēn
- Old English: scortian
- Old Frisian: skorta
- Old Saxon: *skortōn
- Middle Low German: schorten, schörten
- German Low German: schörten
- Middle Low German: schorten, schörten
- Old Dutch: *skurton
- Middle Dutch: schorten
- Dutch: schorten
- Middle Dutch: schorten
- Old Norse: skorta
- Faroese: skorta
- Icelandic: skorta
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*skurtēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 346