Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hreudaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to heap up”) and cognate with Lithuanian kráuju, kráuti (“to put on top of each other”) and Proto-Slavic *krỳti (“to cover”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*hreudaną[2]
Inflection
Conjugation of *hreudaną (strong class 2)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hreudan
- Old English: hrēodan
- Old Norse: hrjóða (only attested in the past participle hroðinn)
References
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1513”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1513
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*xreuđanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 186