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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *stridʰ-néh₂-ti, an iterative verb from Proto-Indo-European *streydʰ- (“to resist”), the same root gave rise to the strong verb *strīdaną; see there for cognates.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*strittōną[1]
- (North Germanic) to stand upright
- (North Germanic) to resist
Inflection
The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *stritt- against non-singular *strid-.
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*strit(t)ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485