Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gawitō
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editNoun
edit*gawitō m[1]
Inflection
editMasculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *gawitō | |
Genitive | *gawitini, *gawitan | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *gawitō | *gawitan |
Accusative | *gawitan | *gawitan |
Genitive | *gawitini, *gawitan | *gawitanō |
Dative | *gawitini, *gawitan | *gawitum |
Instrumental | *gawitini, *gawitan | *gawitum |
Descendants
edit- Old English: ġewita
- Old Frisian: wita
- Old Saxon: *giwito
- ⇒ Old Saxon: mēngiwito
- Old High German: giwizzo
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 323: “PWGmc [...] *gawitō”