Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gawihtī

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

From *ga- +‎ *wihti (“weight”) +‎ *-ī (abstract noun suffix).

Noun

*gawihtī n

1. weight

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gawihtī
Genitive	*gawihtijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gawihtī	*gawihtiju
Accusative	*gawihtī	*gawihtiju
Genitive	*gawihtijas	*gawihtijō
Dative	*gawihtijē	*gawihtijum
Instrumental	*gawihtiju	*gawihtijum

Descendants

• Old English: gewiht, gewihte
  • Middle English: ȝewihte, ȝewiht, iwichte, ȝewyht
• Old Saxon: giwihti
  • Middle Low German: gewichte, wichte
• Old Dutch: *giwihti
  • Middle Dutch: gewichte
    • Dutch: gewicht
• Old High German: giwihti
  • Middle High German: gewichte
    • German: Gewicht
    • Hunsrik: Gewicht
    • Luxembourgish: Gewiicht
    • Vilamovian: gywycht

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wehti-2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 578: “*ga-weht-ja”