Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/waldaną

Etymology
Kroonen supposes a back-formation from the preterite (compare Old Norse past ), which continues an extended aorist root, Pre-Proto-Germanic, from.

LIV² posits a *-dʰ-present to the root (there reconstructed as ), from which a Pre-Proto-Germanic iterative  was derived, in which case it is close cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to rule

Inflection
The original preterite seems to have been weakly inflected like a preterite-present verb, as seen in Old Norse.