Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-lōnąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_lōną
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969
suffixverbWeak class 2forms Weak class 2 verbs, often with iterative, frequentative, attenuative, or diminutive force; roughly ‘to do repeatedly, lightly, or in a characteristic manner’Probably abstracted within Proto-Germanic from denominal or deadjectival Weak class 2 verbs with the common -l- suffix seen in PGmc (e.g., forming adjectives, agent nouns, diminutive, and instrument nouns in *-ila- and its variants) Krahe & Meid 1969: 263–64. Proto-Germanic had a number of verbal suffixes that were created by extracting an original stem-final consonant (in this case, *-l) and then attaching it to the beginning of Weak Class 2 verb suffix *-ōną (*-l + *-ōną > *-lōną). The same process was used to create verbal suffixes *-inōną and *-isōną. It may have been a Proto-Northwest Germanic innovation, since this suffix is not attested in Gothic.