Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/liggjan

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 *ligjaną.

Verb

*liggjan[1]

to lie, to rest

Inflection

*ligiþi, *lag, *lāgun, *legan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: liċġan
- Middle English: lien
  - English: lie, lig
  - Scots: lie
Old Frisian: lidzia
- West Frisian: lizze (merger with ledza)
Old Saxon: liggian
- Dutch Low Saxon: liggen
- German Low German: liggen
Old Dutch: liggen
- Middle Dutch: liggen
  - Dutch: liggen
    - Afrikaans: lê (merger with leggen)
  - Limburgish: ligke
Old High German: ligan, liggan
- Middle High German: ligen, licken
  - Alemannic German: ligge
  - Central Franconian: lijje
  - German: liegen
  - Luxembourgish: leien
  - Yiddish: ליגן‎ (lign)

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 *[ligʲgʲan]”

[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 *[ligʲgʲan]”