Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hagatussjā

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
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

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Germanic *hagatusjō,[1] from *hagô (“enclosure; pasture”) +‎ *tusjō (“witch, demon”) (whence Norwegian tysja (“witch, demon”)),[2] compare English hedgewitch. Second element perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“breath; spirit”), whence Proto-Slavic *duxъ (“breath; spirit”).[3]

Noun

[edit]

*hagatussjā f[3][4]

  1. witch

Inflection

[edit]
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *hagatussjā
Genitive *hagatussjōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *hagatussjā *hagatussjōn
Accusative *hagatussjōn *hagatussjōn
Genitive *hagatussjōn *hagatussjōnō
Dative *hagatussjōn *hagatussjōm, *hagatussjum
Instrumental *hagatussjōn *hagatussjōm, *hagatussjum

Alternative reconstructions

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ The template Template:R:gem:Johnsen:2005 does not use the parameter(s): 
    2=*hag(a)tis-j-ō-
    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Johnsen, Sverre (2005) The Germanic (i)jō-stem declension: Origin and development (PhD thesis)‎[1], Oslo: University of Oslo, page 73
  2. ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “häxa”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok‎[2] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Hexe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 308: “wg. *haga-tusjō”
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 192: “PWGmc *hagatusi, *hagatusʲsʲā-”
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/hagatussjā&oldid=78559535"