Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/āmaitijā
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Possibly from unstressed *uʀ- (“off, away”)[1],[2] or perhaps *āmā (“larva”), + *maitan (“to cut off”) + *-jā (agent suffix), if not a substrate borrowing.[3]
Noun edit
*āmaitijā f[1]
Inflection edit
ōn-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *āmaitijā | |
Genitive | *āmaitijōn | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *āmaitijā | *āmaitijōn |
Accusative | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōn |
Genitive | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōnō |
Dative | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum |
Instrumental | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum |
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Old English: ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte
- Old Frisian:
- Old Saxon: *āmētia
- Old Dutch: *āmēta
- Old High German: āmeiza
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Ameise”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 24: “wg. *ǣ-maitjōn”
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*maitanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*amaitjo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24