Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skautô
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *skautaz (“corner; wedge”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*skautô m[1]
- an object with a square shape
Inflection
editmasculine an-stemDeclension of *skautô (masculine an-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *skautô | *skautaniz | |
vocative | *skautô | *skautaniz | |
accusative | *skautanų | *skautanunz | |
genitive | *skautiniz | *skautanǫ̂ | |
dative | *skautini | *skautammaz | |
instrumental | *skautinē | *skautammiz |
Descendants
edit- Old English: sċēata (“corner, angle, cloth”)
- Old Saxon: *skota
- Middle Low German: shote (“pot”)
- Old High German: *scōza
- Middle High German: schōze (“fold, apron”)
- Old Norse: skauti (“kerchief, a square piece of wood”)
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*skautōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 337