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 ==Skundavisk==
 ===Etymology===
-From Middle Skundavisk ''taken'', from Old Skundavisk ''tākan'', ''tēkan'', from Halmisk ''ᛏᛖᚲᚨᚾ'' (''tēkan''), from Proto-Germanic ''*tēkaną''. The shortening of the /a/ vowel during the late times of Old Skundavisk is irregular and explains why the modern form is not ''*tåken'' as it normally would be. This has also caused the verb to switch from the strong verb class 7 to the class 6 which is the usual class for verbs whose main vowel is a short /a/. However, typical class 7 preterit forms like ''tek'' can still be heard in some dialects.
+From Middle Skundavisk ''taken'', from Old Skundavisk ''tākan'', ''tēkan'', from Halmisk ''ᛏᛖᚲᚨᚾ'' (''tēkan''), from Proto-Germanic ''*tēkaną''. The verb originally belonged to the strong verb class 7 with a reduplicated past root ''*tetōk'', but when the past root was reduced to ''*tōk'', the verb was re-analyzed as a class 6 verb, as the verbs of this class normally follow an a-ō-a pattern. The same analogy then caused the shortening of the "ā" vowel of ''tākan'' during the late times of Old Skundavisk, which explains why the modern form is not ''*tåken'' as it normally would be. However, typical class 7 preterit forms like ''tek'' can still be found in some Eastern dialects.
 ===Pronunciation===