Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þewāną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *þewaz (“servile, slavish”) + *-āną or *þewaz (“slave”) + *-āną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθe.wɑː.nɑ̃/
Verb
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *þewō | ? | — | ? | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *þewaisi | ? | *þewai | *þewāsai | ? | |
| 3rd singular | *þewaiþi | ? | *þewāþau | *þewāþai | ? | |
| 1st dual | *þewōs | ? | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *þewāþiz | ? | *þewāþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *þewāmaz | ? | — | *þewānþai | ? | |
| 2nd plural | *þewaiþ | ? | *þewaiþ | *þewānþai | ? | |
| 3rd plural | *þewānþi | ? | *þewānþau | *þewānþai | ? | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *þewadǭ | *þewadēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *þewadēz | *þewadēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *þewadē | *þewadēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *þewadēdū | *þewadēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *þewadēdudiz | *þewadēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *þewadēdum | *þewadēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *þewadēdud | *þewadēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *þewadēdun | *þewadēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *þewāndz | *þewadaz | ||||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þewēn
- Old English: þeowian
- Old High German: dewēn
- Old Norse: þéa, þjá
- Gothic: *𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (*þiwan) (𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (anaþiwan), 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (gaþiwan))
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þewēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 541
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*þegwēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419