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This Proto-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.
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).[1]
Pronunciation
Preposition
*in
- (+dative) in
- (+accusative) into
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *in
- Old English: in, ᛁᚾ (in) — Franks Casket
- Old Frisian: in
- North Frisian:
- Saterland Frisian: in
- West Frisian: yn
- Old Saxon: in
- Old Dutch: in
- Old High German: in
- Middle High German: in
- Bavarian: i
- Cimbrian: inn, in (preposition)
- Central Franconian: en, ön, on
- German: in
- Luxembourgish: an
- Rhine Franconian: in, en
- Yiddish: אין (in)
- Old Norse: í
- Icelandic: í
- Faroese: í, íggj
- Norn: i
- Norwegian Nynorsk: i
- Norwegian Bokmål: i
- Elfdalian: i
- Old Swedish: ī
- Danish: i
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌽 (in)
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*in(i)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269