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Proto-Germanic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From *harmaz (“to harm, pain”) + *-janą or *harmaz (“to harmful, painful”) + *-janą.
Verb
*harmijaną
- to harm, injure, pain
- to shame
Inflection
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂-, *kerh₃- (“to praise (loudly)”).[1]
Verb
*harmijaną
- to repeat, relate, report
- to mimic, imitate
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “259”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN: “*harmjan-”