Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/baþjaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *baþą (“bath”) + *-janą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɑθ.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*baþjaną[1]
- to moisturize, to make wet (with warm water)
- to boil
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *baþjō | *baþjaų | — | *baþjai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *baþisi | *baþjais | *baþi | *baþjasai | *baþjaisau | |
| 3rd singular | *baþiþi | *baþjai | *baþjaþau | *baþjaþai | *baþjaiþau | |
| 1st dual | *baþjōs | *baþjaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *baþjaþiz | *baþjaiþiz | *baþjaþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *baþjamaz | *baþjaim | — | *baþjanþai | *baþjainþau | |
| 2nd plural | *baþiþ | *baþjaiþ | *baþiþ | *baþjanþai | *baþjainþau | |
| 3rd plural | *baþjanþi | *baþjain | *baþjanþau | *baþjanþai | *baþjainþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *baþidǭ | *baþidēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *baþidēz | *baþidēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *baþidē | *baþidēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *baþidēdū | *baþidēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *baþidēdudiz | *baþidēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *baþidēdum | *baþidēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *baþidēdud | *baþidēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *baþidēdun | *baþidēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *baþjandz | *baþidaz | ||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *baþþjan, *baþigōn
- Old English: bæþþan, beþþan; beþian, beþigean (alternative forms from variant *baþigōn)
- Middle English: bethen, beðen, beþien (Early Middle English)
- English: beath (dialectal)
- Middle English: bethen, beðen, beþien (Early Middle English)
- Old Frisian: *beththa, *bethia
- West Frisian: bette, betsje
- Old Saxon: *beththian
- >? Middle Low German: *betten
- Low German: betten (probably a loanword from Frisian)
- >? Middle Low German: *betten
- Old Dutch: *beththen
- Old English: bæþþan, beþþan; beþian, beþigean (alternative forms from variant *baþigōn)
- Old Norse: *beða
- Elfdalian: beða
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*baþa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 55: “*baþjan-”