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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þeutaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly imitative.
Compare similar onomatopoeias in other Indo-European languages: Latin tutubō (“to cry (of an owl)”), Ancient Greek τυτώ (tutṓ, “a kind of owl”), Lithuanian tutúoti (“to blow, pipe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθeu̯.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*þeutaną[1][2]
- to howl, roar
Inflection
Conjugation of *þeutaną (strong class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *þeutō | *þeutaų | — | *þeutai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *þiutizi | *þeutaiz | *þeut | *þeutazai | *þeutaizau |
| 3rd singular | *þiutidi | *þeutai | *þeutadau | *þeutadai | *þeutaidau |
| 1st dual | *þeutōz | *þeutaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *þeutadiz | *þeutaidiz | *þeutadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *þeutamaz | *þeutaim | — | *þeutandai | *þeutaindau |
| 2nd plural | *þiutid | *þeutaid | *þiutid | *þeutandai | *þeutaindau |
| 3rd plural | *þeutandi | *þeutain | *þeutandau | *þeutandai | *þeutaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *þaut | *þutį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *þaust | *þutīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *þaut | *þutī | |||
| 1st dual | *þutū | *þutīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *þutudiz | *þutīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *þutum | *þutīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *þutud | *þutīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *þutun | *þutīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *þeutandz | *þutanaz | |||
Alternative forms
- *þūtaną
Derived terms
- *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel”, originally “flute”?)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þeutan, *þūtan
- Old English: þēotan, þūtan
- Old High German: diozan
- Middle High German: diezen
- Old Norse: þjóta
- Icelandic: þjóta
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: tyte
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tyta, tyte
- Old Swedish: þiuta
- Swedish: tjuta
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*þeutan-~*þūtan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 540
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*þeutanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 423