Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þiustrī
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from *þimstr (“dark, dusky”) + *-ī (adjective suffix), with unexpected *m > *w.[1] Or, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *þiustrijaz, *þiuhstrijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Compare Proto-Slavic *tuskъ (“gloom”).
Adjective edit
*þiustrī[2]
Inflection edit
ja-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | ||
Nominative | *þiustrī | ||
Genitive | *þiustrijas | ||
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | *þiustrī | *þiustriju | *þiustrī |
Accusative | *þiustrijanā | *þiustrijā | *þiustrī |
Genitive | *þiustrijas | *þiustrijeʀā | *þiustrijas |
Dative | *þiustrijumē | *þiustrijeʀē | *þiustrijumē |
Instrumental | *þiustriju | *þiustrijeʀu | *þiustriju |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | *þiustrijē | *þiustrijō | *þiustriju |
Accusative | *þiustrijā | *þiustrijā | *þiustriju |
Genitive | *þiustrijeʀō | *þiustrijeʀō | *þiustrijeʀō |
Dative | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum |
Instrumental | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old English: þīestre, þȳstre; þēostre (conflated with descendant of *þeustraz)
- Old Frisian: *thiūstere
- Old Saxon: thiustri
- Old Dutch: *thiustri
- Old High German: *thiustri (northern)
References edit
- ^ Gąsiorowski, Piotr (2012), “The Germanic reflexes of PIE *-sr- in the context of Verner's Law”, in The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics[1], Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, , →ISSN
- ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 250: “northern WGmc *þiustrī”