Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/grīsaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Watkins suggests Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, to rub”).[1] However, compare Sanskrit हर्षति (harṣati, “to become on edge, nervous”), which is from *ǵʰers- (“surprised, stiff”).[2]
Pronunciation
Verb
*grīsaną[3]
- to shudder, to shake
- to be frightened, to be in awe
Inflection
Conjugation of *grīsaną (strong class 1)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *grīsan
References
- ^ “grisly”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to Greek, Latin, Gothic, German, Anglo-Saxon, and other cognate Indo-European Languages By Monier Williams, p. 1176
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*grīsanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 143