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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From earlier paradigm *hluppōþi ~ *hlubunanþi, from pre-Proto-Germanic *klub-nā́-ti ~ *klub-un-ánti, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to stumble; to hop”), iterative to *hlaupaną (“to leap, jump”). Cognate with Latvian klupinât (“to keep stumbling”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*hluppōną
- to leap, run
Inflection
The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, *hlupp- against *hlub-.
Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*hluppōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 232