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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout”), possibly with contamination from a marginally attested iterative *gullōną, although Kroonen suggests the strong verb was back-formed to the iterative.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*gellaną[1][2]
- to shout, to yell
Inflection
Conjugation of
*gellaną (strong class 3)
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*gellan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ʒellanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 131