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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/writtōną

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

An iterative verb to the strong verb *wrītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-ti[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwrit.tɔː.nɑ̃/

Verb

*writtōną[1]

  1. to carve
  2. to write

Inflection

The original paradigm would have consisted of two stem variants, singular *writt- against non-singular *writ-.

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *writtōn, *writōn
    • Old English: writian
    • Old Saxon: *writtōn
    • Old High German: rizzōn, rezzōn
  • Old Norse: rita

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*writtōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 597
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