Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gellaną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editUltimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout”), possibly with contamination from a marginally attested iterative *gullōną, although Kroonen suggests the strong verb was back-formed to the iterative.[1]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editInflection
editConjugation of *gellaną (strong class 3)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Old English: ġiellan
- Old Saxon: *gellan
- Old Dutch: *gellan
- Old High German: gellan
- Old Norse: gella, gjalla