Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/jut

This Proto-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-Germanic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *yú, dual of *túh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian jùdu (the two of you).

Alternative forms

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  • *jit (North-West Germanic)

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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*jut

  1. you two

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Proto-West Germanic: *jit
    • Old English: ġit
      • Middle English: ȝit
    • Old Frisian: *it, *jit
      • North Frisian:
        Föhr-Amrum: jat
        Sylt: at
    • Old Saxon: git
    • Old Dutch: *git, *it
    • Old High German: *iz
      • Middle High German: ëz
        • Bavarian: es
        • Yiddish: עץ (ets) (Poylish)
  • Old Norse: it
  • Gothic: 𐌾𐌿𐍄 (jut)

References

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  1. ^ Howe, Stephen (1996) “14. Old/Middle Swedish”, in The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages: A Study of Personal Pronoun Morphology and Change in the Germanic Languages from the First Records to the Present Day, Walter de Gruyter