ᚹᚱᚨᛁᛏᚨ

Proto-Norse

Verb

ᚹᚱᚨᛁᛏᚨ (wraita /wraita/)

  1. first-person singular past indicative of ᚹᚨᚱᛁᛏᚢ (waritu)
    • 5th-6th century, Trollhättan II bracteate (IK 639[1])
      ᛖ[ᚴ]ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉᛗᚨᚱᛁᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉᚺᚨᛁᛏᛖᚹᚱᚨᛁᛏᚨᛚᚨᚦᛟ
      e[k]erilazmariþeubazhaitewraitalaþo
      ek erilaz, Mariþeubaz haitē, wraita laþō
      I, the Erilaz, [who] am called sea/glory-thief, wrote an invitation.

Usage notes

Since the a immediately following wrait is not easily explainable, it has been theorized by some authors[2] that this is actually an archaic ending inherited from the Proto-Indo-European stative 1st singular indicative *-h₂e.

References
  1. https://www.runesdb.de/find/439
  2. Elmer H., Antonsen (2002) Runes and Germanic Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), volume 140, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 27
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