Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-itjanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_itjaną
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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.
verbWeak 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 *-itją + infinitive marker *-ną. The suffix belongs with Proto-Germanic *-atją / *-itją, a Weak class 1 verb-forming type whose final *-ją- continues the inherited Indo-European y-present/denominative-factitive suffix *-yé/ó- Ringe 2017: 201. The preceding *-it- is from pre-Germanic *-id-, from older nominal stems in *-d- or thematicized *-do-, to which *-yé/ó- was added. Krahe & Meid 1969: §193 argue that the original basis of Germanic *-itją was a verbal *-yo-derivative of a nominal "*d-stem", where*-d- served a similar function to that of a *-t- extension. The comparison between Ancient Greek -άζω and -ίζω, both of which are also formed from dental stems like *-ad-/*-id- + *-yō-, is both formally and functionally attractive. Krahe & Meid note, however, that the fact that these forms are so similar does not indicate that they represent a shared inheritance by Germanic and Greek Krahe & Meid 1969: §193. The related nominal suffix PGmc *-atją / *-itją appears secondarily in action nouns and abstracts, apparently on the model of verbal nouns from *-atjaną / *-itjaną verbs Krahe & Meid 1969: §133.