Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rikwizjaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷes-yé-ti. Equivalent to *rekwaz (“darkness”) + *-janą. Cognate with Sanskrit रजस्यति (rajasyáti)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈri.kʷiz.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*rikwizjaną[1]
- (impersonal, East Germanic) to get dark
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *rikwizjō | *rikwizjaų | — | *rikwizjai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *rikwizisi | *rikwizjais | *rikwizi | *rikwizjasai | *rikwizjaisau | |
| 3rd singular | *rikwiziþi | *rikwizjai | *rikwizjaþau | *rikwizjaþai | *rikwizjaiþau | |
| 1st dual | *rikwizjōs | *rikwizjaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *rikwizjaþiz | *rikwizjaiþiz | *rikwizjaþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *rikwizjamaz | *rikwizjaim | — | *rikwizjanþai | *rikwizjainþau | |
| 2nd plural | *rikwiziþ | *rikwizjaiþ | *rikwiziþ | *rikwizjanþai | *rikwizjainþau | |
| 3rd plural | *rikwizjanþi | *rikwizjain | *rikwizjanþau | *rikwizjanþai | *rikwizjainþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *rikwizidǭ | *rikwizidēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *rikwizidēz | *rikwizidēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *rikwizidē | *rikwizidēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *rikwizidēdū | *rikwizidēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *rikwizidēdudiz | *rikwizidēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *rikwizidēdum | *rikwizidēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *rikwizidēdud | *rikwizidēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *rikwizidēdun | *rikwizidēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *rikwizjandz | *rikwizidaz | ||||
Descendants
- Gothic: 𐍂𐌹𐌵𐌹𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (riqizjan)
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006), From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165: “*rikʷiziþi”