Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mēlōną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to *mēlą (“stain, mark, spot”) + *-ōną.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*mēlōną[1]
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *mēlōną (weak class 2)
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *mālōn
- Old Norse: mála
References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mēla- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 182: “*mēlōjan-”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*mēljanan ~ *mēlēnan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 270