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The first thing to realise here is that that is not Old English. Read the quote carefully:
an *-ian verb-forming suffix in Germanic
That means the form is Proto-Germanic, rather than Old English. It’s perfectly customary – in fact it’s the standard convention – to use asterisks to indicate that a word or form is reconstructed, meaning that there is no ...
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