Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spurnaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspur.nɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*spurnaną
Inflection
The present tense forms have the zero grade vowel -u- rather than -e-.
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *spurnō | *spurnaų | — | *spurnai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *spurnizi | *spurnaiz | *spurn | *spurnazai | *spurnaizau | |
| 3rd singular | *spurnidi | *spurnai | *spurnadau | *spurnadai | *spurnaidau | |
| 1st dual | *spurnōz | *spurnaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *spurnadiz | *spurnaidiz | *spurnadiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *spurnamaz | *spurnaim | — | *spurnandai | *spurnaindau | |
| 2nd plural | *spurnid | *spurnaid | *spurnid | *spurnandai | *spurnaindau | |
| 3rd plural | *spurnandi | *spurnain | *spurnandau | *spurnandai | *spurnaindau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *sparn | *spurnį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *sparnt | *spurnīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *sparn | *spurnī | ||||
| 1st dual | *spurnū | *spurnīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *spurnudiz | *spurnīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *spurnum | *spurnīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *spurnud | *spurnīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *spurnun | *spurnīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *spurnandz | *spurnanaz | ||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Old English: spurnan, spornan
- Old Frisian: spurna
- Old Saxon: spurnan
- Old High German: spurnan
- German: anspornen
- Old Norse: sporna
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*spurnan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 471