ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ
Proto-Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *talgidē, 3rd singular past indicative of Proto-Germanic *talgijaną.
Verb
ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ (talgidai), (3rd singular past indicative)
- [he/she/it] carved
- 3rd c., DK NJy 48:
- ᛒᛁᛞᚨᚹᚨᚱᛁᛃᚨᛉᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ
- bidawarijaʀtalgidai
- Bidawarijaz carved
- 3rd c., DK NJy 48:
Usage notes
- Word-final -ᛞᚨᛁ (-dai) may be a case of hypercorrection; although Proto-Germanic *-ai did turn into *-ē in Proto-Norse (cf. dative ending -ᛖ (-e /ē/), from *-ai), the weak third-person past indicative comes from reconstructed *-dē, not *-dai.
Descendants
- Old Norse: telgja
- Icelandic: telgja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje
- Norwegian Bokmål: telgje
- Old Swedish: tælghia
- Swedish: tälja
Further reading
- Roland Schuhmann, “(Neu‑)Lesungen von Runeninschriften und ihre Folgen für die frühgermanische Grammatik” in Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions Nyköping, Sweden, 2–6 September 2014 (→ISBN, Uppsala 2021), pages 43-53
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26