Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/trappōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From pre-Germanic *drob-néh₂-ti,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *dreb⁽ʰ⁾- (“to tread, to step”). Compare Lithuanian drebė́ti (“to tremble”) and Polish drabina (“ladder”).
Pronunciation
Verb
- (West Germanic) to trample
Inflection
The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, *trapp- against *trap-.
Conjugation of *trappōną (weak class 2)
Related terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *trappōn
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*trappōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 520-521
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*trappōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409