Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-isōnąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_isōną
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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*-iskoscharacteristic of, typical of, pertaining to
suffixverbWeak class 2forms Weak class 2 verbs from adjectives and nouns, typically meaning ‘to be, become, make, treat as, or act in relation to X’From Proto-Germanic *-is- + *-ōną. The first element is an old nominal or adjectival *-is- extension, comparable to the *-is- seen in PGmc*-iskaz < (PIE *-iskos), while the second element is the regular Weak class 2 denominative verb suffix *-ōną, itself from pre-Germanic *-eh₂-yé/ó- from noun bases ending in *-eh₂. The suffix is a secondary PGmc resegmentation: verbs of the type*X-is-ōną, originally formed to *-is- stems, were reanalyzed as *X- + *-isōną. It is a parallel development to PGmc *-inōną, which was similarly extracted from Weak class 2 verbs based on nouns ending in *-in- or *-īn-Krahe & Meid 1969: 255–56Ringe 2017: 200.