Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/drepaną

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This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (to grind; crush; kill), attested only in Northern PIE (Germanic and Balto-Slavic). Likely cognate with Lithuanian drė̃bti (to strike), Latvian drêbt (to beat).

Due to the *p, which otherwise points to a dubious PIE *b, Kroonen assumes that ultimately the verb is a back-formation from the iterative Proto-Germanic *drappōną of Proto-Germanic *drabaną (to hew).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

*drepaną

  1. to hit, strike

Inflection

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*drepan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 101-2