Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/brahtm

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

Probably related to *brekaną (“to break”) and *brahtaz (“cracking, snapping, noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to crash, break”).^[1]

Noun

*brahtm m^[2]

(North Sea Germanic) noise, racket

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*brahtm
Genitive	*brahtmas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*brahtm	brahtmō, brahtmōs
Accusative	*brahtm	*brahtmā
Genitive	*brahtmas	*brahtmō
Dative	*brahtmē	*brahtmum
Instrumental	*brahtmu	*brahtmum

Descendants

Old English: breahtm, bearhtm, byrhtm
Old Saxon: brahtum

References

^ Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 62, 230
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “(post-)PWGmc *brahtm”

[1] Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 62, 230

[2] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “(post-)PWGmc *brahtm”

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