Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fetaną
Proto-Germanic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɸe.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Etymology 1
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to give birth”). Cognate with Old Irish idu (“labour pains”).[1]
Verb
*fetaną
- to give birth
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *fetō | *fetaų | — | *fetai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *fitizi | *fetaiz | *fet | *fetazai | *fetaizau | |
| 3rd singular | *fitidi | *fetai | *fetadau | *fetadai | *fetaidau | |
| 1st dual | *fetōz | *fetaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *fetadiz | *fetaidiz | *fetadiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *fetamaz | *fetaim | — | *fetandai | *fetaindau | |
| 2nd plural | *fitid | *fetaid | *fitid | *fetandai | *fetaindau | |
| 3rd plural | *fetandi | *fetain | *fetandau | *fetandai | *fetaindau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *fat | *fētį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *fast | *fētīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *fat | *fētī | ||||
| 1st dual | *fētū | *fētīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *fētudiz | *fētīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *fētum | *fētīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *fētud | *fētīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *fētun | *fētīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *fetandz | *fetanaz | ||||
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”). Cognate with Russian па́дать (pádatʹ, “to fall, drop, decrease, decline”).
Verb
*fetaną[2]
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *fetō | *fetaų | — | *fetai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *fitizi | *fetaiz | *fet | *fetazai | *fetaizau | |
| 3rd singular | *fitidi | *fetai | *fetadau | *fetadai | *fetaidau | |
| 1st dual | *fetōz | *fetaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *fetadiz | *fetaidiz | *fetadiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *fetamaz | *fetaim | — | *fetandai | *fetaindau | |
| 2nd plural | *fitid | *fetaid | *fitid | *fetandai | *fetaindau | |
| 3rd plural | *fetandi | *fetain | *fetandau | *fetandai | *fetaindau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *fat | *fētį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *fast | *fētīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *fat | *fētī | ||||
| 1st dual | *fētū | *fētīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *fētudiz | *fētīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *fētum | *fētīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *fētud | *fētīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *fētun | *fētīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *fetandz | *fetanaz | ||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *fetan
- Old English: *fetan (“to fall”), ġefetan
- Old High German: fezzan (“to fall”)
- Old Norse: feta (“to step”)
- Icelandic: feta
- Swedish: fjäta (dialectal)
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fedon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 127
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 138