Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/krabbô

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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

An agent noun formation from *krabbōną (“to scratch”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

*krabbô m

  1. crab

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *krabbô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *krabbô *krabbaniz
vocative *krabbô *krabbaniz
accusative *krabbanų *krabbanunz
genitive *krabbiniz *krabbanǫ̂
dative *krabbini *krabbammaz
instrumental *krabbinē *krabbammiz

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*krabban-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 299
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