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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kahhattjan

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

Likely onomatopoeic,[1] seemingly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʰa kʰa (ha ha), compare Old Church Slavonic хохотати (xoxotati), Latin cachinno, Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō), καγχάξω (kankháxō), Old Armenian խախանք (xaxankʻ), Sanskrit कखति (kakhati), कक्खति (kakkhati).[2][3]

Verb

*kahhattjan[4]

  1. to laugh loudly

Inflection

Class 1 weak
Infinitive *kahhattjan
1st sg. past *kahhattā
Infinitive *kahhattjan
Genitive infin. *kahhattjannjas
Dative infin. *kahhattjannjē
Instrum. infin. *kahhattjannju
Indicative Present Past
1st singular *kahhattju *kahhattā
2nd singular *kahhatisi *kahhattēs, *kahhattōs
3rd singular *kahhatiþi *kahhattē, *kahhattā
1st plural *kahhattjum *kahhattum
2nd plural *kahhatiþ *kahhattud
3rd plural *kahhattjanþ *kahhattun
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular *kahhattjē *kahhattī
2nd singular *kahhattjēs *kahhattī
3rd singular *kahhattjē *kahhattī
1st plural *kahhattjēm *kahhattīm
2nd plural *kahhattjēþ *kahhattīd
3rd plural *kahhattjēn *kahhattīn
Imperative Present
Singular *kahhati
Plural *kahhatiþ
Present Past
Participle *kahhattjandī *kahhatt
  • *kahhittjōn
    • Old High German: kahhizzōn

Descendants

  • Old English: ċeahhettan
  • Old High German: kahhazzen
    • Middle Low German: kachezen

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “kichern”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 368
  2. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 21
  3. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “kha kha!”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 634
  4. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:PWGmc *kahhatʲtʲan
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