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Asturian tener, Portuguese ter, Galician ter, Catalan tenir, French tenir, Italian tenere, Aromanian tsãn, Romanian ține, Sardinian tènnere
Umbrian tenitu "he held"
Middle Welsh tannu "to spread out," Middle Cornish tan "take!"
Gothic ufþanjan "to extend," Old Norse þenja "to stretch," Old High German dennan 'id.,' Old Saxon thenian 'id.,' Old English þennan 'id.'
Lithuanian tìnti "to swell," Latvian tît "to wrap"
Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos) "cord"
Sanskrit tanóti "to stretch," Old Avestan us-tāna- "stretched out"
Interestingly, the preterite stem tuv- (tuve, tuviste, etc...) does not come directly from its predecessor in Latin ten- (tenui, tenuiste, etc...). Instead, it was created by analogy from the preterite of haber (hube, hubiste, etc...). |