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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps, related to Old Irish bág (“war”) and Old Irish bágaid (“to battle”)[1],[2] which has been proposed to stem from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁ǵʰ- (“to dispute, quarrel”).[3]
Pronunciation
Verb
*bēganą[1]
- to fight, argue, quarrel
Inflection
Conjugation of
*bēganą (strong class 7d)
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*bēʒanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 44
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhēgh-:bhōgh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 115
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 68