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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tinnaną
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Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *tinþaną (?)
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *dendʰneti. The ultimate origin is unclear, as solid cognates outside of Germanic are lacking.[1] Osthoff suggests Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“kindle, burn”) (Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō)), but Pokorny rejects this.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtin.nɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*tinnaną[3]
- to burn
Inflection
Conjugation of *tinnaną (strong class 3)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *tinnō | *tinnaų | — | *tinnai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *tinnizi | *tinnaiz | *tinn | *tinnazai | *tinnaizau |
| 3rd singular | *tinnidi | *tinnai | *tinnadau | *tinnadai | *tinnaidau |
| 1st dual | *tinnōz | *tinnaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *tinnadiz | *tinnaidiz | *tinnadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *tinnamaz | *tinnaim | — | *tinnandai | *tinnaindau |
| 2nd plural | *tinnid | *tinnaid | *tinnid | *tinnandai | *tinnaindau |
| 3rd plural | *tinnandi | *tinnain | *tinnandau | *tinnandai | *tinnaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *tann | *tunnį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *tannt | *tunnīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *tann | *tunnī | |||
| 1st dual | *tunnū | *tunnīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *tunnudiz | *tunnīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *tunnum | *tunnīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *tunnud | *tunnīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *tunnun | *tunnīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *tinnandz | *tunnanaz | |||
Derived terms
- *tandijaną
- *tandrô
- *tundijaną
- *tundilaz
- *tundrą
- *tundrijǭ
Related terms
- *tinþslô
Descendants
- Old English: tinnan
- Old High German: *zinnan
- Middle High German: zinnen
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “zünden”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 179-81
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*tinnan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518