yawn

yawn · verb, noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵʰi-
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*gainōną“to yawn, gape”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gainōn
4. Old English · inherited fromgānian“to yawn, gape”
5. Middle English · inherited fromgonen“to gape, yawn”
6. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*ginōną“to yawn”
7. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*ginōn
8. Old English · inherited fromġeonian
9. Middle English · inherited fromyanen
10. English todayyawn

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)

Yawn · proper noun²

Americanized spelling of the German surname Jahn