Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The act of gnawing.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo bite something persistently, especially something tough. · To produce excessive anxiety or worry. · To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą (“to gnaw”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”). Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Danish gnave (“to gnaw”), Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiongnawenenm
- Inherited-form mentiongnaganang
- Inherited-form mention*gnagangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gnaganągem-pro · to gnaw
- Derivation mention*gʰnēgʰ-ine-pro · to gnaw, scratch
- Cognate mentionknagennl
- Cognate mentionnagende
- Cognate mentiongnaveda · to gnaw
- Cognate mentiongnagenb
- Cognate mentiongnagann
- Cognate mentiongnagasv
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