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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ubanē

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From *ub + *-anē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈu.βɑ.neː/

Adverb

*ubanē

  1. from above

Descendants

Because of the irregular forms between some of the directional adverbs and preposition, *ub- and *upp-, some of the daughter languages show leveling. Gothic shows an otherwise unknown full-grade *eup- leveled throughout the adverbs.[1]

  • Proto-West Germanic: *obanā
    • Old English: ufan, ufane
      • Middle English: uven
    • Old Frisian: ova, with -pp- uppa, oppa (also uppe, oppe, but these might be from *uppai instead)
    • Old Saxon: ovan, ovana, with -pp- uppan
    • Old Dutch: uppan (with -pp-)
    • Old High German: obana, ūfana, *ovana
  • Old Norse: ofan
    • Icelandic: ofan
    • Faroese: oman
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: ovan
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ova-
    • Old Swedish: ovan
    • Danish: oven
      • Norwegian Bokmål: oven

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN
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