Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/it

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

From Proto-Germanic *it.

Pronoun

*it^[1]

it

Inflection

Proto-West Germanic personal pronouns

singular	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	*ik	*þū	-
accusative	*mik	*þik	*sik
dative	*miʀ	*þiʀ	*sik
possessive	*mīn	*þīn	*sīn
dual	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	*wit	*jit	-
accusative	*unk	*inkw	*sik
dative	*unk		*sik
possessive	*unkar	*inkwar	*sīn
plural	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	*wiʀ	*jiʀ	-
accusative	*uns	*iwwi	*sik
dative	*uns	*iwwi	*sik
possessive	*unsar	*iuwar	*sīn

Descendants

Old Saxon: it
- Middle Low German: it
  - Low German: et, it
  - Plautdietsch: et
Old Dutch: it
- Middle Dutch: it, et
Old High German: iz
- Middle High German: ëz
  - Alemannic German: es
  - Bavarian: es
    Cimbrian: es, 'z (Luserna), is, 's
    Mòcheno: s
  - Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: es
  - German: es
  - Luxembourgish: et
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: es
  - Yiddish: עס (es)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124: “*it”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124: “*it”

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