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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Likely onomatopoeic,[1] seemingly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʰa kʰa (“ha ha”), compare Old Church Slavonic хохотати (xoxotati), Latin cachinno, Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō), καγχάξω (kankháxō), Old Armenian խախանք (xaxankʻ), Sanskrit कखति (kakhati), कक्खति (kakkhati).[2][3]
Verb
*kahhattjan[4]
- to laugh loudly
Inflection
| Class 1 weak
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| Infinitive
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*kahhattjan
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| 1st sg. past
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*kahhattā
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| Infinitive
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*kahhattjan
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| Genitive infin.
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*kahhattjannjas
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| Dative infin.
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*kahhattjannjē
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| Instrum. infin.
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*kahhattjannju
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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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*kahhattju
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*kahhattā
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| 2nd singular
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*kahhatisi
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*kahhattēs, *kahhattōs
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| 3rd singular
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*kahhatiþi
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*kahhattē, *kahhattā
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| 1st plural
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*kahhattjum
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*kahhattum
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| 2nd plural
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*kahhatiþ
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*kahhattud
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| 3rd plural
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*kahhattjanþ
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*kahhattun
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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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*kahhattjē
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*kahhattī
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| 2nd singular
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*kahhattjēs
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*kahhattī
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| 3rd singular
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*kahhattjē
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*kahhattī
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| 1st plural
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*kahhattjēm
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*kahhattīm
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| 2nd plural
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*kahhattjēþ
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*kahhattīd
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| 3rd plural
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*kahhattjēn
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*kahhattīn
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| Imperative
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Present
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| Singular
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*kahhati
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| Plural
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*kahhatiþ
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Present
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Past
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| Participle
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*kahhattjandī
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*kahhatt
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Descendants
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “kichern”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 368
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 21
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “kha kha!”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 634
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *kahhatʲtʲan”
