Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wihtą
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Old Church Slavonic вещь (veštĭ), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“thing”).
However, Kroonen also compares *weganą (“to carry, to move”) (cognate with Proto-Celtic *wextā (“time, course, run”)).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*wihtą n
Inflection
[edit]neuter a-stemDeclension of *wihtą (neuter a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *wihtą | *wihtō | |
vocative | *wihtą | *wihtō | |
accusative | *wihtą | *wihtō | |
genitive | *wihtas, *wihtis | *wihtǫ̂ | |
dative | *wihtai | *wihtamaz | |
instrumental | *wihtō | *wihtamiz |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: wiht; nāwiht, nōwiht
- Old Dutch: *wiht
- Old High German: wiht
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄 (waiht), ni ... waiht (the neuter form waiht as well as the feminine form waihts occurs in Gothic, according to the book Glossarium der Gotischen Sprache, thus the form *wihtiz also existed in Proto-Germanic).