Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hlahhjan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.

Verb

*hlahhjan[1]

to laugh

Inflection

*hlahiþi, *hlōh, *hlōgun, *hlagan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

*hlahtr

Descendants

Old English: hliehhan
- Middle English: laughen, laghen
  - Scots: lauch
  - English: laugh
  - Yola: leeigh
Old Saxon: hlahan, hlahhian
- Middle Low German: lachen
  - Low German: lachen
  - Plautdietsch: lachen, lachren
Old Dutch: *lahhen, *lahhan
- Middle Dutch: lachen
  - Dutch: lachen
    - Afrikaans: lag
  - Limburgish: lache
Old High German: hlahhan, hlahhēn
- Middle High German: lachen
  - German: lachen
  - Luxembourgish: laachen
  - Yiddish: לאַכן‎ (lakhn)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51: “PWGmc *[hlahʲhʲan]”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51: “PWGmc *[hlahʲhʲan]”