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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fehaną.
Verb
*gafehan[1]
- to rejoice
Inflection
Strong class 5
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Infinitive
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*gafehan
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1st sg. past
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*gafah
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3rd pl. past
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*gafāgun
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Past ptcple
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*gafegan
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Infinitive
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*gafehan
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Genitive infin.
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*gafehannjas
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Dative infin.
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*gafehannjē
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Instrum. infin.
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*gafehannju
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Indicative
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Present
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Past
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1st singular
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*gafehu
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*gafah
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2nd singular
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*gafihiʀi
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*gafāgī
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3rd singular
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*gafihidi
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*gafah
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1st plural
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*gafehum
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*gafāgum
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2nd plural
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*gafihid
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*gafāgud
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3rd plural
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*gafehand
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*gafāgun
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Subjunctive
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Present
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Past
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1st singular
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*gafehē
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*gafāgī
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2nd singular
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*gafehēs
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*gafāgī
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3rd singular
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*gafehē
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*gafāgī
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1st plural
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*gafehēm
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*gafāgīm
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2nd plural
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*gafehēþ
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*gafāgīd
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3rd plural
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*gafehēn
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*gafāgīn
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Imperative
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Present
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Singular
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*gafih
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Plural
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*gafihid
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Present
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Past
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Participle
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*gafehandī
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*gafegan
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 178: “PWGmc *gafehan”