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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/klimban
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *klimbaną.
Verb
*klimban[1]
- to climb
Inflection
| Class 3 strong | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *klimban | |
| 1st sg. past | *klamb | |
| 3rd pl. past | *klumbun | |
| Past ptcple | *klumban | |
| Infinitive | *klimban | |
| Genitive infin. | *klimbannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *klimbannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *klimbannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *klimbu | *klamb |
| 2nd singular | *klimbiʀi | *klumbī |
| 3rd singular | *klimbidi | *klamb |
| 1st plural | *klimbum | *klumbum |
| 2nd plural | *klimbid | *klumbud |
| 3rd plural | *klimband | *klumbun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *klimbē | *klumbī |
| 2nd singular | *klimbēs | *klumbī |
| 3rd singular | *klimbē | *klumbī |
| 1st plural | *klimbēm | *klumbīm |
| 2nd plural | *klimbēþ | *klumbīd |
| 3rd plural | *klimbēn | *klumbīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *klimb | |
| Plural | *klimbid | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *klimbandī | *klumban |
Descendants
- Old English: climban
- Middle English: climben
- Scots: clim, clym
- English: climb
- Middle English: climben
- Old Frisian: *klimba
- West Frisian: klimme
- Old Saxon: klimban
- Old Dutch: *climban
- Middle Dutch: climmen
- Dutch: klimmen
- Limburgish: klömbe, klömme
- Middle Dutch: climmen
- Old High German: klimban, chlimban
- German: klimmen
- Luxembourgish: klammen
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*klimban”