Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rīrāną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Seemingly from the same reduplicated Proto-Indo-European *Hrey-Hroy-e- as Sanskrit लेलायति (lelāyáti, “to quiver, tremble”), from *Hrey-. Further compare Latvian raize (“worry, concern”), rieva (“wrinkle”).
Verb
*rīrāną[1](East Germanic)
- to tremble
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *rīrō | ? | — | ? | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *rīraisi | ? | *rīrai | *rīrāsai | ? | |
| 3rd singular | *rīraiþi | ? | *rīrāþau | *rīrāþai | ? | |
| 1st dual | *rīrōs | ? | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *rīrāþiz | ? | *rīrāþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *rīrāmaz | ? | — | *rīrānþai | ? | |
| 2nd plural | *rīraiþ | ? | *rīraiþ | *rīrānþai | ? | |
| 3rd plural | *rīrānþi | ? | *rīrānþau | *rīrānþai | ? | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *rīradǭ | *rīradēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *rīradēz | *rīradēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *rīradē | *rīradēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *rīradēdū | *rīradēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *rīradēdudiz | *rīradēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *rīradēdum | *rīradēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *rīradēdud | *rīradēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *rīradēdun | *rīradēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *rīrāndz | *rīradaz | ||||
Derived terms
- *rīrō
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*rīrēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 414