Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skakaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to shake, stir”), with unexpected *-k- instead of *-h-, either through contamination or back-formation from the iterative *skakkōną (“to shake”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *skakaną (strong class 6)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *skakan
- Old Norse: skaka (skakra)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “skakan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*skakanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
- ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SKAK-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 404