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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þunnijaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *þunnuz (“thin”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈθun.ni.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*þunnijaną[1]
- to make thin
Inflection
Conjugation of *þunnijaną (weak class 1)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *þunnijō | *þunnijaų | — | *þunnijai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *þunnīsi | *þunnijais | *þunnī | *þunnijasai | *þunnijaisau |
| 3rd singular | *þunnīþi | *þunnijai | *þunnijaþau | *þunnijaþai | *þunnijaiþau |
| 1st dual | *þunnijōs | *þunnijaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *þunnijaþiz | *þunnijaiþiz | *þunnijaþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *þunnijamaz | *þunnijaim | — | *þunnijanþai | *þunnijainþau |
| 2nd plural | *þunnīþ | *þunnijaiþ | *þunnīþ | *þunnijanþai | *þunnijainþau |
| 3rd plural | *þunnijanþi | *þunnijain | *þunnijanþau | *þunnijanþai | *þunnijainþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *þunnidǭ | *þunnidēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *þunnidēz | *þunnidēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *þunnidē | *þunnidēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *þunnidēdū | *þunnidēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *þunnidēdudiz | *þunnidēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *þunnidēdum | *þunnidēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *þunnidēdud | *þunnidēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *þunnidēdun | *þunnidēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *þunnijandz | *þunnidaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þunnijan
- Old English: þynnian
- Middle English: thinnen
- English: thin
- Middle English: thinnen
- Old Dutch: *thunnen
- Middle Dutch: dunnen
- Dutch: dunnen
- Middle Dutch: dunnen
- Old High German: dunnen
- Middle High German: dünnen
- German: dünnen
- Middle High German: dünnen
- Old English: þynnian
- Old Norse: þynna
- Icelandic: þynna
- Faroese: tynna
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tynna, tynne
- Norwegian Bokmål: tynne
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*þunnjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 429