Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwiknaną
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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
From *kwikwaz (“alive”) + *-naną.
Pronunciation
Verb
*kwiknaną[1]
Inflection
Conjugation of *kwiknaną (weak class 4)
Descendants
Further reading
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 259
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kwiwa- ~ *kwikwa-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320