Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rannijan

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 *rannijaną.

Verb

*rannijan^[1]

to cause to run

Inflection

Class 1 weak
Infinitive	*rannijan
1st sg. past	*rannidā
Infinitive	*rannijan
Genitive infin.	*rannijannjas
Dative infin.	*rannijannjē
Instrum. infin.	*rannijannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*ranniju	*rannidā
2nd singular	*rannisi	rannidēs, rannidōs
3rd singular	*ranniþi	rannidē, rannidā
1st plural	*rannijum	*rannidum
2nd plural	*ranniþ	*rannidud
3rd plural	*rannijanþ	*rannidun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*rannijē	*rannidī
2nd singular	*rannijēs	*rannidī
3rd singular	*rannijē	*rannidī
1st plural	*rannijēm	*rannidīm
2nd plural	*rannijēþ	*rannidīd
3rd plural	*rannijēn	*rannidīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*ranni
Plural	*ranniþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*rannijandī	*rannid

Derived terms

*garannijan

Related terms

*rinnan

Descendants

Old English: *rennan, ærnan
- Middle English: rennen
Old Frisian: renna
Old Saxon: rennian
- Middle Low German: rennen
  - German Low German: rennen
Old Dutch: *rennan
- Middle Dutch: rennen
  - Dutch: rennen
    - Afrikaans: ren
Old High German: rennan
- Middle High German: rennen
  - German: rennen
→⇒ Old French: randir
- Middle French: randir, raindir
  - Picard: randir
  - Norman: randir

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 229: “PWGmc *rannijan”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 229: “PWGmc *rannijan”

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