Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þeutaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly imitative.
Compare similar onomatopoeias in other Indo-European languages: Latin tutubō (“to cry (of an owl)”), Ancient Greek τυτώ (tutṓ, “a kind of owl”), Lithuanian tutúoti (“to blow, pipe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθeu̯.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *þeutō | *þeutaų | — | *þeutai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *þiutizi | *þeutaiz | *þeut | *þeutazai | *þeutaizau | |
| 3rd singular | *þiutidi | *þeutai | *þeutadau | *þeutadai | *þeutaidau | |
| 1st dual | *þeutōz | *þeutaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *þeutadiz | *þeutaidiz | *þeutadiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *þeutamaz | *þeutaim | — | *þeutandai | *þeutaindau | |
| 2nd plural | *þiutid | *þeutaid | *þiutid | *þeutandai | *þeutaindau | |
| 3rd plural | *þeutandi | *þeutain | *þeutandau | *þeutandai | *þeutaindau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *þaut | *þutį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *þaust | *þutīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *þaut | *þutī | ||||
| 1st dual | *þutū | *þutīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *þutudiz | *þutīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *þutum | *þutīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *þutud | *þutīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *þutun | *þutīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *þeutandz | *þutanaz | ||||
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel”, originally “flute”?)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þeutan, *þūtan
- Old English: þēotan, þūtan
- Old High German: diozan
- Middle High German: diezen
- Old Norse: þjóta
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þeutan-~*þūtan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 540
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*þeutanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 423