Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aihtiz

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

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyḱ-tis. By surface analysis, *aiganą +‎ *-þiz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯x.tiz/

Noun

*aihtiz f[1]

possessions, property

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *aihtiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*aihtiz	*aihtīz
vocative	*aihti	*aihtīz
accusative	*aihtį	*aihtinz
genitive	*aihtīz	*aihtijǫ̂
dative	*aihtī	*aihtimaz
instrumental	*aihtī	*aihtimiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *aihti
- Old English: ǣht
  - Middle English: aught, ought
    - English: aught, ought
    - Scots: aucht
- Old Saxon: ēht
  - ⇒ Old Saxon: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
    - Middle Low German: vracht
      - German Low German: fracht
      - → Middle Dutch: vracht
        Dutch: vracht
        Afrikaans: vrag
      - → Danish: fragt
      - → English: freight, fraught (possibly via Middle Dutch)
      - → German: Fracht
      - → Gutnish: frakt
      - → Norwegian: frakt (possibly via Middle Dutch)
      - → Swedish: frakt
- Old Dutch: *ēht
  - ⇒ Old Dutch: *frēht
    - Middle Dutch: vrecht
- Old High German: ēht
Old Norse: átt, ætt
- Icelandic: átt, ætt
- Faroese: ætt
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ætt
- Old Swedish: æt
  - Swedish: ätt
- Danish: æt
- Old Gutnish: ǣt
Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (aihts)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aihti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 9

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aihti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 9