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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aidiją

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”). Kroonen suggests nominalization of a possible gerundive *aidijaz (“passable”), from a Pre-Germanic *h₁oytyos.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯.ði.jɑ̃/

Noun

*aidiją n[1]

  1. (North Germanic) isthmus, strait

Inflection
neuter ja-stemDeclension of *aidiją (neuter ja-stem)
singular plural
nominative *aidiją *aidijō
vocative *aidiją *aidijō
accusative *aidiją *aidijō
genitive *aidijas, *aidīs *aidijǫ̂
dative *aidijai *aidijamaz
instrumental *aidijō *aidijamiz

Alternative forms

Descendants
  • Old Norse: eið, eiði
    • Icelandic: eið, eiði
    • Faroese: eið, eiði
    • Norn: ed
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: eid, eide
    • Norwegian Bokmål: eid
    • Old Swedish: ēþ
      • Swedish: ed
    • → English: eid, (dialectal)
  • → Proto-Samic: *ājδē
    • Northern Sami: áidi
    • Southern Sami: aejrie

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aidja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 8
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