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Where does “*wandijan” come from?

*wandijan (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic wandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.

Ancestry of “*wandijan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicwandijanąto turn
2Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn
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