Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lappōną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *lap-néh₂- (“to lick”). The root was probably onomatopoeic and might have come about after the PIE period proper. Related to Latin lambō (“to lick”), Lithuanian lapènti (“to drink greedily (of pigs)”), Ancient Greek λάπτω (láptō, “idem”), Albanian lap (“to lick or lap up water”), Russian ло́пать (lópatʹ, “to gobble up”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑp.pɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*lappōną
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *lappō | *lappǭ | — | *lappōi | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *lappōsi | *lappōs | *lappō | *lappōsai | *lappōsau | |
| 3rd singular | *lappōþi | *lappō | *lappōþau | *lappōþai | *lappōþau | |
| 1st dual | *lappōs | *lappōw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *lappōþiz | *lappōþiz | *lappōþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *lappōmaz | *lappōm | — | *lappōnþai | *lappōnþau | |
| 2nd plural | *lappōþ | *lappōþ | *lappōþ | *lappōnþai | *lappōnþau | |
| 3rd plural | *lappōnþi | *lappōn | *lappōnþau | *lappōnþai | *lappōnþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *lappōdǭ | *lappōdēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *lappōdēz | *lappōdēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *lappōdē | *lappōdēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *lappōdēdū | *lappōdēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *lappōdēdudiz | *lappōdēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *lappōdēdum | *lappōdēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *lappōdēdud | *lappōdēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *lappōdēdun | *lappōdēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *lappōndz | *lappōdaz | ||||
Derivatives
- *lapaną (back-formation)
Descendants
The original paradigm was singular *lapp- against non-singular *lab-, with different leveling among the daughter languages.
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*lapp/bōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 327