Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sprittōną
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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 *spritnéh₂-, a zero-grade iterative to *sprīþaną (“to break up”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*sprittōną
- to disperse
Inflection
The original Germanic paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *spritt- against non-singular *sprid-.
Conjugation of *sprittōną (weak class 2)
Descendants
- Middle High German: sprützen
- German: spritzen
- Yiddish: שפּריצן (shpritsn)
- → English: spritz
- → Hebrew: הִשְׁפְּרִיץ (hishpríts)
- Norwegian: sprita
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*sprit(t)ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470