Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sigiþiz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Likely a nominal formation from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), and related to *sagō (“saw”).^[1]

Noun

*sigiþiz m^[1]^[2]

sickle

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *sigiþiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*sigiþiz	*sigiþīz
vocative	*sigiþi	*sigiþīz
accusative	*sigiþį	*sigiþinz
genitive	*sigiþīz	*sigiþijǫ̂
dative	*sigiþī	*sigiþimaz
instrumental	*sigiþī	*sigiþimiz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *sigiþī, *sigþī (late)
- Old English: sigþe, sigdi, sīþe m
  - Middle English: sithe, sythe
    - English: scythe
    - Scots: sithe, scythe
- Old Frisian: *sichte, *sīthe
  - Saterland Frisian: Sied m
  - West Frisian: sichte
- Old Saxon: *sigitha, *sigtha, *sihta
  - Middle Low German: sigde, sichte, segede, sicht f
    - German Low German: Sichte, Sicht
- Old Dutch: *sigitha, *sigtha, *sihta
  - Middle Dutch: sichte f
    - Dutch: zicht
      - → West Frisian: zicht
Old Norse: sigðr; sigðir (“sword”)
- Icelandic: sigður
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sigd

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*seʒiþaz ~ *seʒiþōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 322
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 277: “PNWGmc *sigiþiz”

[HGE-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*seʒiþaz ~ *seʒiþōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 322

[2] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 277: “PNWGmc *sigiþiz”

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