Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/panningaz

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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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of unclear origin. Many regard the forms without the medial *-t- or *-d- as the older ones because the Slavic and Lithuanian loans (Proto-Slavic *pěnędzь) do not show the reflex of a medial obstruent, which makes it difficult to connect with *pandan- (“pledge”) (Old High German phant) or their possible etymon, Latin pondus (“weight”). The second part of the word is probably *-ingaz. The first part is possibly a borrowing of one of these Latin words:[1][2]

  • panna (“pan”), with a semantic shift explained as a penny being a "coin with a concave form" (per De Vries/De Tollenaere), or
  • pannus (“piece of cloth”), because cloth was often used as means of payment.

Vennemann suggests another possibility, following from his (controversial) Punic superstrate theory: that *paning may derive from Carthaginian traders' jargon use of Punic 𐤐𐤍 (pn /⁠pani⁠/, “face”) to mean "coin", as almost all Carthaginian coins depicted the face of Tanit (a goddess who was herself known as the "face of Baal"), and even the second-most common motif was the face of Melqart; Vennemann further speculates that the variants *panning and *panding preserved the bimoric nature of the Punic word.[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

*panningaz, *pandingaz, *pantingaz m

  1. a coin, penny

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *panningaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *panningaz *panningōz, *panningōs
vocative *panning *panningōz, *panningōs
accusative *panningą *panninganz
genitive *panningas, *panningis *panningǫ̂
dative *panningai *panningamaz
instrumental *panningō *panningamiz

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пенязь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  2. ^ Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎, Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 91f
  3. ^ Vennemann, Theo (2013) Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna, editor, Germania Semitica (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, No. 259)‎, Walter de Gruyter, Ne'er-a-Face: A Note on the Etymology of Penny, with an Appendix on the Etymology of Pane, page 467 ff
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