Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-ōjan

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 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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Reanalysed from *-ōn based on the first and third class of weak verbs.

Suffix

*-ōjan

  1. (North Sea Germanic) Alternative form of *-ōn

Descendants

  • Old English: -ian
    • Middle English: -ien, -en (merged with all other verbs)
      • English: -en, -e (obsolete)
      • Scots: -e (obsolete)
  • Old Frisian: -ia
    • North Frisian: -je
    • Saterland Frisian: -je
    • West Frisian: -je
  • Old Saxon: -oian
    • Middle Low German: -en
      • German Low German: -en
      • Dutch Low Saxon: -en
      • Plautdietsch: -en

Further reading

  • Sehrt, Edward H. (1940) “The Long Forms of ōn-Verbs in Old Saxon”, in Language, volume 16, number 2, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI
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