Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aliskōnąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aliskōną
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Nominale Stammbildungslehre der altgermanischen DialekteFriedrichKlugeMax Niemayer1899Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Lexikon der indogermanischen VerbenHelmutRixMartinKümmelThomasZehnderReinerLippBrigitteSchirmerWiesbadenReichert2001Altnordisches Etymologisches WörterbuchJande VriesBrill1977*h₂el-to grow, nourishelskrfond, loving; dear, belovedopelsketo cultivate, grow (plants); rear (cattle)
verbWeak class 2to tend to, to care forProbably derived from *alaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-. The formation contains *-isk- and may have arisen through a corresponding adjective *aliskaz (‘fond, affectionate; dear, beloved’), continued by Old Norse elskrde Vries 1977: s.v. elska, followed by formation of the Weak class 2 verb in *-ōną; alternatively, *aliskaz and *aliskōną may represent parallel Germanic derivatives of the same base; Kroonen reconstructs aliskōn- directly as a derivative of alan- (but without further explanation of the origin of the *-isk-) Kluge 1899: §211Kroonen 2013: 22Rix et al. 2001: 262Ringe 2017: 211–14, 275. Kroonen compares Danish opelske, which preserves the older semantic connection between ‘nurture, rear’ and the later North Germanic development ‘cherish, love’.