Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwinkaną
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. According to Vladimir Orel, possibly a derived term formed from the root of Ancient Greek σβέννῡμι (sbénnūmi, “I extinguish, quench”), Proto-Slavic *gasìti (“to extinguish”), Lithuanian gèsti (“to extinguish”), Sanskrit जासयति (jāsáyati, “to exhaust, weaken”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*kwinkaną[1]
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *kwinkaną (strong class 3)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *kwinkan
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*kwenkanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 228