Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/tibā
Appearance
Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *tibǭ. A geminate byform *tibbǭ > *tibbā gave German dialectal Zippe, Zibbe (“ewe; doe (hare, rabbit)”), Icelandic tebba (“vixen”), and possibly English tib (“working-class woman”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*tibā f
Inflection
[edit]ōn-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *tibā | |
Genitive | *tibōn | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *tibā | *tibōn |
Accusative | *tibōn | *tibōn |
Genitive | *tibōn | *tibōnō |
Dative | *tibōn | *tibōm, *tibum |
Instrumental | *tibōn | *tibōm, *tibum |
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: tife
- Old Frisian: *tive, *teve
- Saterland Frisian: Tieuwe
- Old Saxon: *tiva
- Old Dutch: *tiva
- >? Old High German: *zibba
References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “tib(b)ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515