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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sprittōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *spritnéh₂-, a zero-grade iterative to *sprīþaną (“to break up”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsprit.tɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*sprittōną
- to disperse
Inflection
The original Germanic paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *spritt- against non-singular *sprid-.
Conjugation of *sprittōną (weak class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *sprittō | *sprittǭ | — | *sprittōi | ? |
| 2nd singular | *sprittōsi | *sprittōs | *sprittō | *sprittōsai | *sprittōsau |
| 3rd singular | *sprittōþi | *sprittō | *sprittōþau | *sprittōþai | *sprittōþau |
| 1st dual | *sprittōs | *sprittōw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *sprittōþiz | *sprittōþiz | *sprittōþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *sprittōmaz | *sprittōm | — | *sprittōnþai | *sprittōnþau |
| 2nd plural | *sprittōþ | *sprittōþ | *sprittōþ | *sprittōnþai | *sprittōnþau |
| 3rd plural | *sprittōnþi | *sprittōn | *sprittōnþau | *sprittōnþai | *sprittōnþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *sprittōdǭ | *sprittōdēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *sprittōdēz | *sprittōdēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *sprittōdē | *sprittōdēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *sprittōdēdū | *sprittōdēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *sprittōdēdudiz | *sprittōdēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *sprittōdēdum | *sprittōdēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *sprittōdēdud | *sprittōdēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *sprittōdēdun | *sprittōdēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *sprittōndz | *sprittōdaz | |||
Descendants
- Middle High German: sprützen
- German: spritzen
- Yiddish: שפּריצן (shpritsn)
- Norwegian: sprita
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470