Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lappōną
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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 Pre-Germanic *lap-néh₂- (“to lick”). The root was probably onomatopoeic and might have come about after the PIE period proper. Related to Latin lambō (“to lick”), Lithuanian lapènti (“to drink greedily (of pigs)”), Ancient Greek λάπτω (láptō, “idem”), Albanian lap (“to lick or lap up water”), Russian ло́пать (lópatʹ, “to gobble up”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*lappōną
Inflection
Conjugation of *lappōną (weak class 2)
Derivatives
- *lapaną (back-formation)
Descendants
The original paradigm was singular *lapp- against non-singular *lab-, with different leveling among the daughter languages.
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*lapp/bōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 327