Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. · To say while yawning. · To present a wide opening; gape. · To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored. · A particularly boring event.
Partly from Middle English yanen, yonen, yenen (“to yawn”), from Old English ġeonian, ġinian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *ginōn, from Proto-Germanic *ginōną (“to yawn”); and partly from Middle English gonen (“to gape, yawn”), from Old English gānian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn, from Proto-Germanic *gainōną (“to yawn, gape”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-, *ǵʰeyh₁- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with North Frisian jåne (“to yawn”), Saterland Frisian jaanje, joanje (“to yawn”), Middle Dutch genen, ghenen (“to yawn”), German Low German jahnen (“to yawn”), German gähnen (“to yawn, gape”), dialectal Swedish gana (“to gape, gawk”), dialectal Norwegian gina (“to gape”). Compare also Old Church Slavonic зѣѭ (zějǫ) (Russian зи́нуть (zínutʹ), зия́ть (zijátʹ)), Greek χαίνω (khaínō)), Latin hiō, Tocharian A śew, Tocharian B kāy-, Lithuanian žioti, Sanskrit जेह् (jeh)
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- Inherited-form mentionyanenenm
- Inherited-form mentionġinianang
- Inherited-form mention*ginōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ginōnągem-pro · to yawn
- Inherited-form mentiongonenenm · to gape, yawn
- Inherited-form mentiongānianang · to yawn, gape
- Inherited-form mention*gainōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gainōnągem-pro · to yawn, gape
- Derivation mention*ǵʰi-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionjånefrr · to yawn
- Cognate mentionjaanjestq
- Cognate mentiongenendum
- Cognate mentiongähnende · to yawn, gape
- Cognate mentionganasv · to gape, gawk
- Cognate mentionginano · to gape
- Cognate mentionзѣѭcu
- Cognate mentionзи́нутьru
- Cognate mentionśewxto
- Cognate mentionkāy-txb
- Cognate mentionžiotilt
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