Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/haitaną

Etymology
From, a dental extension of the root. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Perhaps the original notion was "to summon", i.e. "to order someone to come" (cf. the parallel usage of 🇨🇬, from the cognate Latin root).

Verb

 * 1) to address, call, summon
 * 2) to name
 * 3)  to be called
 * 4) to promise