Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/understandaną
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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
Verb
*understandaną
- to stand beneath
- to understand
Inflection
Present tense with n-infix. The past tense forms are shared with the synonymous suppletive verb *stāną.
Conjugation of *understandaną (strong class 6)
Related terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *undarstandan
- Old English: understandan, understondan
- Middle English: understanden, understonden
- English: understand
- Scots: understand, onderstand
- Yola: understhoane
- Middle English: understanden, understonden
- Old Frisian: understanda, understonda
- Saterland Frisian: unnerstounde
- Old Saxon: *undarstandan
- Middle Low German: understanden
- Old High German: untarstantan
- Middle High German: understanden
- Old English: understandan, understondan
- Old Norse: undirstanda
- Icelandic: undirstanda
- Faroese: undirstanda