Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rihtijaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *rehtaz (“straight”) + *-janą.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrix.ti.jɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*rihtijaną
- to straighten, to set straight
- to align, to direct
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *rihtijō | *rihtijaų | — | *rihtijai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *rihtīsi | *rihtijais | *rihtī | *rihtijasai | *rihtijaisau | |
| 3rd singular | *rihtīþi | *rihtijai | *rihtijaþau | *rihtijaþai | *rihtijaiþau | |
| 1st dual | *rihtijōs | *rihtijaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *rihtijaþiz | *rihtijaiþiz | *rihtijaþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *rihtijamaz | *rihtijaim | — | *rihtijanþai | *rihtijainþau | |
| 2nd plural | *rihtīþ | *rihtijaiþ | *rihtīþ | *rihtijanþai | *rihtijainþau | |
| 3rd plural | *rihtijanþi | *rihtijain | *rihtijanþau | *rihtijanþai | *rihtijainþau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *rihtidǭ | *rihtidēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *rihtidēz | *rihtidēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *rihtidē | *rihtidēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *rihtidēdū | *rihtidēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *rihtidēdudiz | *rihtidēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *rihtidēdum | *rihtidēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *rihtidēdud | *rihtidēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *rihtidēdun | *rihtidēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *rihtijandz | *rihtidaz | ||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *rihtijan
- Old Norse: rétta (a class 1 weak verb, the descendants have mostly moved it to class 2)
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*rehta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 408: “*rehtjan-”