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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/trappōną

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 pre-Germanic *drob-néh₂-ti,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *dreb⁽ʰ⁾- (“to tread, to step”). Compare Lithuanian drebė́ti (“to tremble”) and Polish drabina (“ladder”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɑp.pɔː.nɑ̃/

Verb

*trappōną[1][2]

  1. (West Germanic) to trample

Inflection

The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, *trapp- against *trap-.

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *trappōn
    • Old Saxon: *trappōn
    • Old Dutch: *trappon, *trapon
      • Middle Dutch: trappen, *trapen
        • Dutch: trappen
        • ⇒ Middle Dutch: betrapen
          • Dutch: betrapen (dialectal, Flemish)

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*trappōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 520-521
  2. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*trappōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
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