Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/agiþahsijā

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Alternative forms

• *awiþahsijā

Etymology

From otherwise unattested *agi (“lizard, snake”), from Proto-Germanic *agiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis, + *þehsan (whence Middle High German dehsan (“to swingle (flax)”), from *þehsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to cut, hew”), +‎ *-jā (agent suffix).

Noun

*agiþahsijā f

1. lizard

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*agiþahsijā
Genitive	*agiþahsijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*agiþahsijā	*agiþahsijōn
Accusative	*agiþahsijōn	*agiþahsijōn
Genitive	*agiþahsijōn	*agiþahsijōnō
Dative	*agiþahsijōn	*agiþahsijōm, *agiþahsijum
Instrumental	*agiþahsijōn	*agiþahsijōm, *agiþahsijum

Descendants

• Old English: āþexe
  • Middle English: aske, arske
    • English: ask, askard
    • Scots: ask, esk, awsk
• Old Saxon: egithassa, ewidehsa
  • Middle Low German: gedisse, egidesse
    • German Low German: Eevtaske, Heevtaske, Eevtask, Heevtask
    • Plautdietsch: Äajdakjs, Äajdakjsel
• Old Dutch: *egithassa
  • Middle Dutch: hāgetisse
    • Dutch: hagedis
      • Afrikaans: akkedis
      • Negerhollands: kakatės, kakketis
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: kakates (dated)
      • → Aukan: lagadisa
      • → Sranan Tongo: lagadisa
      • → West Frisian: hagedis
    • Limburgish: eektes, herdis, ees, redis
• Old High German: egidehsa, ewidehsa
  • Middle High German: egedëhse, eidëhse
    • Alemannic German: Heidëchsli
    • Bavarian: Adachsl, Eidachsl
    • German: Eidechse, Echse
      • → Luxembourgish: Eidechs
    • Luxembourgish: Eederes (dated)
    • Vilamovian: edikjys
    • Yiddish: עקדיש (ekdish, “scorpion”)