Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-atjanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_atjaną
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017-άζωforms verbs from nouns, adjectives, and other verbs.-ίζωforms similative verbs from nouns, adjectives and other verbs.
suffixverbWeak class 1forms weak class I verbs from nouns and adjectives, with meanings such as ‘make X’, ‘become X’, ‘act as X’, or ‘treat as X’, similar in function to modern English “-ize”forms intensive, frequentative, or iterative verbs from verbal basesFrom Proto-Germanic *-atja- + infinitive marker *-ną. The suffix belongs with Proto-Germanic *-atja-/ *-itja-, a Weak class 1 verb-forming type whose final *-ja-continues the inherited Indo-European y-present / denominative-factitive suffix *-yé/ó- Ringe 2017: 201, 323. The preceding *-at- is the PGmc reflex of a pre-Germanic dental stem element *-ad- or thematicized *-od-. The suffix was probably formed from *-yo- verbs that had earlier nominal stems ending in *-d- or *-do-, where the original function of the dental element was as an extension to a root or stem Krahe & Meid 1969: §193. Ancient Greek suffixes -άζω and -ίζωand the PGmc suffix are formally and functionally similar; however, both systems may have developed in parallel from similar earlier Indo-European patterns of dental stem extensions with *-yé/ó-verbal derivations Krahe & Meid 1969: §193.