Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kunnan

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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

From Proto-Germanic *kunnaną.

Verb

*kunnan

  1. to recognise
  2. to know how, be able

Inflection

*kann, *kant, *kunnun, *kunþā, *kunnan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 101: “*kunnan”