Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kaiju
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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]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown; possibly related to Middle Dutch kegghe (“wedge”), and perhaps further to Old Norse *kagi (“shrub, young tree”), possibly cognate with Lithuanian žagarĩ pl (“scrub, brushwood”), Lithuanian žãgaras (“withered branch”), suggestively from Proto-Indo-European *ǵegʰ-.[3]
Noun
[edit]*kaiju f[1]
- (Anglo-Frisian Germanic) key
- Synonym: *slutil
Inflection
[edit]| ō-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *kaiju | |
| Genitive | *kaijā | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *kaiju | *kaijō |
| Accusative | *kaijā | *kaijā |
| Genitive | *kaijā | *kaijō |
| Dative | *kaijē | *kaijōm, *kaijum |
| Instrumental | *kaiju | *kaijōm, *kaijum |
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]- *kāgiju[4]
- *kaigu
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page northern WGmc *kaij- ‘key’
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 32: “*kaigi-/*kajjo-”
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “g̑egh-, g̑ogh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 354
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kēgjō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284