PGmc morphology MOC

PGmc conjugation

As with nouns, most verbs belonged to one of several large inflectional classes.¹

1. PGmc strong verbs
2. PGmc weak verbs
3. PGmc preterite-presents
4. PGmc anomolous verbs

Ringe’s classification

The lexical classes are classified by Ringe as

• I. PGmc strong verbs
  • A. PGmc unaffixed thematic presents
  • B. PGmc presents in *-i- ~ *-ja-
  • C. PGmc thematic presents with a nasal affix
• II. PGmc weak verbs
  • A. PGmc *bringaną-class with unsuffixed thematic present, past with no vowel before the suffix.
  • B. PGmc *wurkijaną-class with presents in -i- ~ -ja-, past with no vowel before the suffix (subclass of weak I)
  • C. PGmc *lagjaną-class with presents in -i- ~ -ja-, past with -i- before the suffix (main weak I)
  • D. PGmc *karō̄ną-class with presents in -ō̄-, past with -ō- before the suffix (weak II)
  • E. PGmc *sagjaną-class with presents in -ai- ~ -ja-, past with no vowel before the suffix (subclass of weak III)
  • F. PGmc *armāną-class with presents in -ai- ~ -ā-, past possibly with -a- before the suffix (main weak III)
  • G.PGmc *þurznaną-class with presents in -nō- ~ -na-, past probably with -no- before the suffix (weak IV)
• III. PGmc preterite-presents
• IV. PGmc anomolous verbs

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Footnotes

1. 2017, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, pp. 262–263 ↩