Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mōtu

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 *mōtō.

Noun

*mōtu f

tribute, tax, toll

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mōtu
Genitive	*mōtā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mōtu	*mōtō
Accusative	*mōtā	*mōtā
Genitive	*mōtā	*mōtō
Dative	*mōtē	mōtōm, mōtum
Instrumental	*mōtu	mōtōm, mōtum

Descendants

Old English: mōt
- Middle English: mot
  - Yola: mot
Old High German: *muoza
- Middle High German: muoze
  - Bavarian: Mueß (“miller's fee”)
→ Medieval Latin: mūta^[1] [a. 837]
- → Old Dutch: *mūta
  - Middle Dutch: mute
    - Dutch: muit (archaic)
- → Old High German: *mūta, muta (alternatively borrowed from Gothic)
  - Middle High German: mūte
    - German: Maut
- → Old Norse: múta
  - Icelandic: múta
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: mute
  - Old Swedish: múta
    - Swedish: muta

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Maut”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN: “nullum teloneum neque quod lingua theodisca Muta vocatur”

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Maut”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN: “nullum teloneum neque quod lingua theodisca Muta vocatur”

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