Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stuttijaną
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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 *stuþs (“support, prop, post”) + *-nō- (factitive) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
Verb
*stuttijaną[1]
- to support
Inflection
Conjugation of *stuttijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *stuttijan
- Old Saxon: *stuttian
- Old Dutch: *stutten
- ⇒ Old High German: untarstuzzen
- Middle High German: understützen
- Bavarian: stitzn, unterstitzn
- German: stützen, unterstützen
- Middle High German: understützen
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*stuþ/d-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489: “*stuttjan-”