Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/nāhwawisti

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 *nāhw +‎ *wisti.

Noun

*nāhwawisti f^[1]

neighbourhood

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*nāhwawisti
Genitive	*nāhwawistī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*nāhwawisti	*nāhwawistī
Accusative	*nāhwawisti	*nāhwawistī
Genitive	*nāhwawistī	*nāhwawistijō
Dative	*nāhwawistī	nāhwawistim, nāhwawistijum
Instrumental	*nāhwawistī	nāhwawistim, nāhwawistijum

Descendants

Old English: nēawist, nēowist
Old High German: nāhwist

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 305: “PWGmc *nāhawisti”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 305: “PWGmc *nāhawisti”

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