Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/teuną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

from Proto-Indo-European *dewH- (“to torment, vex”);
from Proto-Indo-European *h₃d-ew-, an extension of *h₃ed- (“to bite, sting”) possibly found also in Ancient Greek ὀδύνη (odúnē, “pain, harm”) and Albanian dhurë / dhunë (“injury, blemish; violence”), which point to a noun *h₃du-neh₂;
cognate with Ancient Greek δέω (déō, “to miss, want, need”) for a root *dew-; however, the Greek word may instead be from *dews- (see Proto-Germanic *tuz-).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈteu̯.nɑ̃/

Noun

*teuną n

destruction; ruin; damage; lack

Inflection

Declension of *teuną (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*teuną	*teunō
vocative	*teuną	*teunō
accusative	*teuną	*teunō
genitive	teunas, tiunis	*teunǫ̂
dative	*teunai	*teunamaz
instrumental	*teunō	*teunamiz

Derived terms

*tiunijaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *teun
- Old English: tēon
  - ⇒? Old English: tēona, tēone (or from *teunō)
    - Middle English: tene
      - English: teen
      - Scots: tene, teyne
- Old Saxon: *tion
  - ⇒? Old Saxon: tiono (or from *teunō)
Old Norse: tjón (or from *teunô)
- Icelandic: tjón
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tjon
- Swedish: tyn (dialectal)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*teuna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515
Vladimir Orel (2003), “*teunō(n)”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405