Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/grippōną
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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 Pre-Germanic *gʰribʰnéh₂-, a zero-grade iterative to the root of *grīpaną (“to grip”) (though Kroonen considers this form the original, and *grīpaną a back-formation).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*grippōną
- to grasp
Inflection
The original paradigm likely consisted of two stem variants, *gripp- in the singular and *grib- in the non-singular.
Conjugation of *grippōną (weak class 2)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*gripp/bōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 191