Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/māan

This Proto-West 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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mēaną.

Verb

*māan^[1]

to mow

Inflection

Strong class 7d
Infinitive	*māan
1st sg. past	*mē
3rd pl. past	*mēun
Past ptcple	*māan
Infinitive	*māan
Genitive infin.	*māannjas
Dative infin.	*māannjē
Instrum. infin.	*māannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*māu	*mē
2nd singular	*māiʀi	*mēī
3rd singular	*māidi	*mē
1st plural	*māum	*mēum
2nd plural	*māid	*mēud
3rd plural	*māand	*mēun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*māē	*mēī
2nd singular	*māēs	*mēī
3rd singular	*māē	*mēī
1st plural	*māēm	*mēīm
2nd plural	*māēþ	*mēīd
3rd plural	*māēn	*mēīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*mā
Plural	*māid
	Present	Past
Participle	*māandī	*māan

Descendants

Old English: māwan
- Middle English: mowen
  - English: mow
  - Scots: maw
Old Frisian: *meā, *miā
- Saterland Frisian: mjo
- West Frisian: mjeane, meane
Old Saxon: *māian
- Middle Low German: meien, meyen, meygen, meigen, mêgen
  - German Low German: maihen
  - → Swedish: meja
  - → Danish: meje
  - → Norwegian:
    - Norwegian Bokmål: meie
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: meia, meie
Old Dutch: *māien
- Middle Dutch: mâyen
  - Dutch: maaien
    - Afrikaans: maai
Old High German: māen
- Middle High German: mæjen
  - German: mähen
  - Luxembourgish: méien

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*māan”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*māan”

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