Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mawī

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

Unknown; presumably from Proto-Germanic *mawaz, *mawiz (“clean”) +‎ *-ī (adjective suffix), possibly related to Proto-Slavic *mỳti (“to wash”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *myewh₁- (“to move about”).

Adjective

*mawī

1. pretty

Inflection

ja-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*mawī
Genitive	*mawijas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*mawī	*mawiju	*mawī
Accusative	*mawijanā	*mawijā	*mawī
Genitive	*mawijas	*mawijeʀā	*mawijas
Dative	*mawijumē	*mawijeʀē	*mawijumē
Instrumental	*mawiju	*mawijeʀu	*mawiju
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*mawijē	*mawijō	*mawiju
Accusative	*mawijā	*mawijā	*mawiju
Genitive	*mawijeʀō	*mawijeʀō	*mawijeʀō
Dative	*mawijēm, *mawijum	*mawijēm, *mawijum	*mawijēm, *mawijum
Instrumental	*mawijēm, *mawijum	*mawijēm, *mawijum	*mawijēm, *mawijum

Descendants

• Old Saxon: *mōi
  • Middle Low German: môie
    • Dutch Low Saxon:

      Twents: mooi

    • German Low German:

      Bentheimisch, Westmünsterländisch: mooi

      Westmünsterländisch: mööi

      • → German: moi, mooi (dialectal)
    • → Danish: moj
    • → Norwegian: møy
    • → Swedish: moj
• Old Dutch: *mōi
  • Middle Dutch: môi, môie
    • Dutch: mooi
      • Afrikaans: mooi, mōi, mui, mooj
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: moi
      • Jersey Dutch: mûi
      • Negerhollands: mooi, mooj, mui
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: moi, moye
      • → Aukan: moi
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: moi
      • → Kwinti: moi
      • → North Frisian: mooi
      • → Saterland Frisian: mooi
      • → Scots: moy
      • → Saramaccan: moi
      • → Sranan Tongo: moi
        • → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: moime
      • → West Frisian: moai
  • ⇒ Old Dutch: Moye (surname)

Further reading

• Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “mooi”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎^[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mauja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359