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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz.

Noun edit

*hwaitī m^[1]

wheat

Inflection edit

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 edit

Old English: hwǣte
- Middle English: whete, ȝwete, huete, weete, wete, wheete, whet, whette, wheyte, wheytt, whiett, whyte; quete, quheyt, qwet, qwhete; hwæte, hweate, hwete, whæte
  - English: wheat
  - Middle Scots: quhete^[2]
    - Scots: white, wheat, wheyt^[3]
  - 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)

References edit

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwaitī”
^ “quhete” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
^ “white” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwaitī”

[2] “quhete” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

[3] “white” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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