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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/spōan

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *spōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *spóh₁-e-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to succeed, prosper”).[1]

Verb

*spōan

  1. to succeed, prosper
    Synonym: *lingwan

Inflection

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: spōwan
  • Old Saxon: *spōan
    • ⇒ Old Saxon: *andspōan, *antspōan
      • Middle Low German: untspōn, entspōn (possibly borrowed from Dutch)
  • Old Dutch: *spuon
    • Middle Dutch: spoen
    • ⇒ Old Dutch: *antspuon
      • Middle Dutch: ontspoen
  • Old High German: spuoan, spuoen, spuon
    • Middle High German: spuon

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*spōan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 468
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