Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kutjaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Possibly related to *ketwą (“meat”). Also compare *kwetwą (“flesh”). For possible sense development, compare Latin carō (“meat”), which probably was originally "a piece of meat cut off".
Verb
*kutjaną(North Germanic)
- to cut
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *kutjō | *kutjaų | — | *kutjai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *kutisi | *kutjais | *kuti | *kutjasai | *kutjaisau | |
| 3rd singular | *kutiþi | *kutjai | *kutjaþau | *kutjaþai | *kutjaiþau | |
| 1st dual | *kutjōs | *kutjaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *kutjaþiz | *kutjaiþiz | *kutjaþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *kutjamaz | *kutjaim | — | *kutjanþai | *kutjainþau | |
| 2nd plural | *kutiþ | *kutjaiþ | *kutiþ | *kutjanþai | *kutjainþau | |
| 3rd plural | *kutjanþi | *kutjain | *kutjanþau | *kutjanþai | *kutjainþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *kutidǭ | *kutidēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *kutidēz | *kutidēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *kutidē | *kutidēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *kutidēdū | *kutidēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *kutidēdudiz | *kutidēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *kutidēdum | *kutidēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *kutidēdud | *kutidēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *kutidēdun | *kutidēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *kutjandz | *kutidaz | ||||
Descendants
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “ketwa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286