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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”), but this is purely speculative. Kroonen instead derives the verb from a Proto-Indo-European *geys- (“to turn, become”), and compares Hittite (kīša(ri) ~ kišanta(ri), “to happen, occur, become”).
Alternative reconstructions
Pronunciation
Verb
*kaizwijaną
- to turn
- to direct
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ * Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gēu-, gǝu-, gū-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 393, 354
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kaizwjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 277