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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sauʀēn
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *sauʀ (“dry”) + *-ēn.[1]
Verb
*sauʀēn
- to become dry, to wither
- to be dry
Inflection
| Class 3 weak | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *sauʀēn | |
| 1st sg. past | *sauʀ?dā | |
| Infinitive | *sauʀēn | |
| Genitive infin. | *sauʀēnijas | |
| Dative infin. | *sauʀēnijē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *sauʀēniju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *sauʀē | *sauʀ?dā |
| 2nd singular | *sauʀēs | *sauʀ?dēs, *sauʀ?dēs |
| 3rd singular | *sauʀēþ | *sauʀ?dē, *sauʀ?dā |
| 1st plural | *sauʀēm | *sauʀ?dum |
| 2nd plural | *sauʀēþ | *sauʀ?dud |
| 3rd plural | *sauʀēnþ | *sauʀ?dun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *sauʀē | *sauʀ?dī |
| 2nd singular | *sauʀēs | *sauʀ?dī |
| 3rd singular | *sauʀē | *sauʀ?dī |
| 1st plural | *sauʀēm | *sauʀ?dīm |
| 2nd plural | *sauʀēþ | *sauʀ?dīd |
| 3rd plural | *sauʀēn | *sauʀ?dīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *sauʀē | |
| Plural | *sauʀēþ | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *sauʀēndī | *sauʀ?d |
Related terms
- *sauʀijan
Descendants
- Old English: sēarian
- Middle English: seren
- English: sear
- Middle English: seren
- Old Saxon: *sōrōn
- Middle Low German: sôren
- Old Dutch: *sōron
- Middle Dutch: sôren (merged with descendant of *sauʀijan)
- Dutch: zoren (dialectal)
- Middle Dutch: sôren (merged with descendant of *sauʀijan)
- Old High German: *sōrēn
- ⇒ Old High German: irsōrēn
- Middle High German: sōren
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*sauza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 428: “*sauzēn-”