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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kahhattjan
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Likely onomatopoeic,[1] seemingly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʰa kʰa (“ha ha”), compare Old Church Slavonic хохотати (xoxotati), Latin cachinno, Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō), καγχάξω (kankháxō), Old Armenian խախանք (xaxankʿ), Sanskrit कखति (kakhati), कक्खति (kakkhati).[2][3]
Verb
*kahhattjan[4]
- to laugh loudly
Inflection
| Class 1 weak | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *kahhattjan | |
| 1st sg. past | *kahhattā | |
| Infinitive | *kahhattjan | |
| Genitive infin. | *kahhattjannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *kahhattjannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *kahhattjannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *kahhattju | *kahhattā |
| 2nd singular | *kahhatisi | *kahhattēs, *kahhattōs |
| 3rd singular | *kahhatiþi | *kahhattē, *kahhattā |
| 1st plural | *kahhattjum | *kahhattum |
| 2nd plural | *kahhatiþ | *kahhattud |
| 3rd plural | *kahhattjanþ | *kahhattun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *kahhattjē | *kahhattī |
| 2nd singular | *kahhattjēs | *kahhattī |
| 3rd singular | *kahhattjē | *kahhattī |
| 1st plural | *kahhattjēm | *kahhattīm |
| 2nd plural | *kahhattjēþ | *kahhattīd |
| 3rd plural | *kahhattjēn | *kahhattīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *kahhati | |
| Plural | *kahhatiþ | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *kahhattjandī | *kahhatt |
Related terms
- *kahhittjōn
- Old High German: kahhizzōn
Descendants
- Old English: ċeahhettan
- Old High German: kahhazzen
- Middle Low German: kachezen
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “kichern”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 368
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 21
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “kha kha!”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 634
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *kahhatʲtʲan”