Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aiþum

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

Etymology

Unknown; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *aiþį̄ (“mother”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-tmó-s, from *h₂ey- (“to give, attribute”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*aiþum m^[1]^[3]^[2]

son-in-law
Synonym: *swāgur

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*aiþum
Genitive	*aiþumas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*aiþum	aiþumō, aiþumōs
Accusative	*aiþum	*aiþumā
Genitive	*aiþumas	*aiþumō
Dative	*aiþumē	*aiþumum
Instrumental	*aiþumu	*aiþumum

Alternative forms

*aiþm^[4]

Descendants

Old English: āþum
- Middle English: aþum, oþom, oþam, oþem
Old Frisian: āthum, āthom, āthem
- >? Saterland Frisian: Oom
Old Saxon: *ēthum
- Middle Low German: eidom, eidum
  - German Low German:
    Westfalian: Eedem
Old Dutch: *eithum, *eitham
- Middle Dutch: eidom (eastern)
  - Dutch: eidom, eedom (obsolete)
  - Limburgish: eejem
Old High German: eidum, eidam
- Middle High German: eidem, eiden
  - German: Eidam (obsolete)
  - Luxembourgish: Eedem
  - Yiddish: איידעם (eydem)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Eidam”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 168: “wg. *aiþuma-”
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “athom”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 28-29: “PGMC: *aiþum- [PWGmc.]”
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*aiþum”
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*aiþma-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 15

[EWddS-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Eidam”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 168: “wg. *aiþuma-”

[OFED-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “athom”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 28-29: “PGMC: *aiþum- [PWGmc.]”

[3] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*aiþum”

[4] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*aiþma-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 15

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