Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hneudaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Compare *knudaną (“to rivet, knead”), source of Old Norse hnoða (“to rivet”). Also compared to Ancient Greek κνύθος (knúthos, “small thorn”), but Kroonen finds this semantically unconvincing.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
Inflection
Conjugation of *hneudaną (strong class 2)
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “hneudan”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*xneuđanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 179-180