Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-ēn

Etymology
From, by extending the suffix alternant -ai- throughout all forms, analogous to the second weak class.

Descendants
Remained only slightly productive in Old High German. In the others, it was replaced almost entirely with the second weak class. However, the existence of a few relic verbs in Old English shows that this class, too, underwent an innovative extension to in the northern languages before being eliminated.