Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aiginScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aigin
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)RobertBeekesBrill2010Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008ī̆cōto hit, strike, smite*h₂eyḱ-to impale, pierce; pointeiginnew sprout of cornαἰχμήpoint of a spear; head of an arrow𐁁𐀏𐀭𐀔spear
nounneuterconsonant stemshoot, sprout; barb or sharp germinal point, especially of grainPossibly from a Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eyḱ-, also underlying *aiglaz. The exact formation is uncertain. Kroonen 2013: 9 tentatively reconstructs an *nt-formation *h₂eyḱ-ént, which would phonologically account well for a dental stem *aiginþ-, but a regular athematic active participle would be expected to have a zero-grade root and the suffixal alternation *-ónt- ~ -n̥t-. The Germanic evidence does not securely establish a paradigm *aigin ~ *aiginþ-: Old Norse eigin lacks the dental, while dental forms in Norwegian and Swedish may reflect a secondary derivative **aigindja-. An early split between a direct form without a dental and an oblique dental stem is possible, but speculative. Compare Latin ī̆cō, Mycenaean Greek 𐁁𐀏𐀭𐀔, and Ancient Greek αἰχμή for the root Beekes 2010: 45–46de Vaan 2008: 295.