Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwaitī

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 Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz.

Noun

*hwaitī m

1. wheat

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hwaitī
Genitive	*hwaitijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hwaitī	*hwaitijō, *hwaitijōs
Accusative	*hwaitī	*hwaitijā
Genitive	*hwaitijas	*hwaitijō
Dative	*hwaitijē	*hwaitijum
Instrumental	*hwaitiju	*hwaitijum

Descendants

• Old English: hwǣte
  • Middle English: whete, ȝwete, huete, weete, wete, wheete, whet, whette, wheyte, wheytt, whiett, whyte, quete, quheyt, qwet, qwhete (Northern), hwæte, hweate, hwete, whæte (Early Middle English)
    • English: wheat
    • Middle Scots: quhete
      • Scots: white, wheat, wheyt
    • Yola: whet
• Old Frisian: hwēte, wēt
  • Saterland Frisian: Weete
  • West Frisian: weet
• Old Saxon: hwēti
  • Middle Low German: wête, weite
    • German Low German: Weet, Weite, Weit, Weten
• Old Dutch: *wēt, *weit
  • Middle Dutch: weet, weit
    • Dutch: weit
    • Limburgish: weit
• Old High German: weizi, hwaizi
  • Middle High German: weize
    • Alemannic German: Weisse
    • Cimbrian: bòotze
    • German: Weizen
    • Hunsrik: Weize
    • Luxembourgish: Weess
    • Pennsylvania German: Weeze
    • Vilamovian: waas
    • Yiddish: ווייץ (veyts)