Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/trampan

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 *trampaną, generally considered of onomatopoeic origin.^[1] Alternative theories take the word as an extension of Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*trampan

to step

Inflection

Strong class 7c
Infinitive	*trampan
1st sg. past	*treamp
3rd pl. past	*treampun
Past ptcple	*trampan
Infinitive	*trampan
Genitive infin.	*trampannjas
Dative infin.	*trampannjē
Instrum. infin.	*trampannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*trampu	*treamp
2nd singular	*trampiʀi	*treampī
3rd singular	*trampidi	*treamp
1st plural	*trampum	*treampum
2nd plural	*trampid	*treampud
3rd plural	*trampand	*treampun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*trampē	*treampī
2nd singular	*trampēs	*treampī
3rd singular	*trampē	*treampī
1st plural	*trampēm	*treampīm
2nd plural	*trampēþ	*treampīd
3rd plural	*trampēn	*treampīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*tramp
Plural	*trampid
	Present	Past
Participle	*trampandī	*trampan

Descendants

Old Saxon: *trampan
- Middle Low German: trampen
  - → Middle High German: *trampen
    - German: trampen
    - → Middle English: trampen
      - English: tramp
    - ⇒ Middle High German: trampelen
      - German: trampeln
Old Dutch: *trampan
- Middle Dutch: trampen
  - Dutch: trampen

References

^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “trampeln”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

[1] Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “trampeln”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

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