Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þananā

This Proto-West 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.

From *þan (“then”) +‎ *-anā (ablative suffix).

*þananā

1. thence, from there

• The geminate -nn- in Middle English and Middle High German is either by analogy with *þannē or due to contraction of the medial vowel (with subsequent restitution of the suffix based on uncontracted forms).

• Old English: þanan, þanon, þanone, þonan
  • Middle English: þenne
    • ⇒ Middle English: þennes
      • English: thence
  • →? Old Norse: þanan (calque)
• Old Frisian: thana
• Old Saxon: thanan, thanana
  • Middle Low German: danen
    • Low German:

      Westphalian: diëne

• Old Dutch: *thanana
  • Middle Dutch: danen, dane, daen
    • ⇒ Middle Dutch: van dane
      • Dutch: vandaan
• Old High German: danān, danana
  • Middle High German: dannen
    • Alemannic German: danne, dänne
    • Central Franconian: danne, dänne
    • German: dannen
    • Luxembourgish: danen (obsolete)

• Vladimir Orel (2003) “*þananē̆”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416