Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ōnǫ̂

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 *-ō (ō-stem suffix) +‎ *-anǫ̂ (an-stem genitive plural suffix).

Suffix

*-ōnǫ̂

Forms the genitive plurals of ōn-stem nouns.
‎*sagǭ (“story”) + ‎*-ōnǫ̂ → ‎*sagōnǫ̂ (“stories', of stories”)

Related terms

*-anǫ̂
*-īnǫ̂
*-nǫ̂

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *-ōnō
- Old English: -ena (early -ana, -na)
  - Middle English: -ene, -an, -en, -yn, -yne, -ena, -enne (Early Middle English, rare)
- Old Frisian: -ana, -ena
  - West Frisian: -ene (fossilised)
- Old Saxon: -ono, -uno, -onu
  - Middle Low German: -en
- Old Dutch: -ono
  - Middle Dutch: -en
- Old High German: -ōno (late -eno, -ōne, -ōn)
  - Middle High German: -en (Alemannic -ōn)
    - Alemannic German:
      Walser German: -o, -u, -e
    - German: -en
Old Norse: -na (for *-ana on the model of masculine and neuter n-stems)
- Icelandic: -na
- Old Swedish: -na
Gothic: -𐍉𐌽𐍉 (-ōnō)

References

Fulk, R[obert] D. (September 2018), “Nouns”, in A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (Studies in Germanic Linguistics; 3)‎^[1], Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, § 7.32, page 172.