Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/huggjan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *hugjaną.

Verb

*huggjan [1]

to think

Inflection

*hugiþi/*hogēþ, *hogdā, *hogd

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

*hugi

Descendants

Old English: hyċġan; hugian, hogian
- Middle English: huyen, hoyen; hogien, hoȝen, howen
  - English: hoe, ho
  - Scots: huik
Old Frisian: hugia
Old Saxon: huggian
- Middle Low German: hugen, hogen, hügen, hȫgen
  - Low German: högen
Old Dutch: *huggan, *gihuggon
- Middle Dutch: hogen, gehogen
  - Dutch: heugen, geheugen
  - Afrikaans: geheue
Old High German: bihuggen, gihuggen

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 108: “*hugʲgʲan”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 108: “*hugʲgʲan”