Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kaizwijaną

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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

Uncertain, as the variations between *kaiz- and *kar- cannot be explained as being inherited from Proto-Indo-European. Pokorny compares Old Armenian կքեմ (kkʻem, to bow, bend) and Russian жи́хать (žíxatʹ, to bend), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to bend, turn),[1] but this is purely speculative.

Alternative reconstructions

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑi̯.zwi.jɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*kaizwijaną[2]

  1. to turn
  2. to direct

Inflection

Descendants

References

  1. ^ * Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gēu-, gǝu-, gū-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 393, 354
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kaizwjan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 277