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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þiustrī
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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
Possibly from *þimstr (“dark, dusky”) + *-ī (adjective suffix), with unexpected *m > *w.[1] Or, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *þiustrijaz, *þiuhstrijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Compare Proto-Slavic *tuskъ (“gloom”).
Inflection
| ja-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | ||
| Nominative | *þiustrī | ||
| Genitive | *þiustrijas | ||
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *þiustrī | *þiustriju | *þiustrī |
| Accusative | *þiustrijanā | *þiustrijā | *þiustrī |
| Genitive | *þiustrijas | *þiustrijeʀā | *þiustrijas |
| Dative | *þiustrijumē | *þiustrijeʀē | *þiustrijumē |
| Instrumental | *þiustriju | *þiustrijeʀu | *þiustriju |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *þiustrijē | *þiustrijō | *þiustriju |
| Accusative | *þiustrijā | *þiustrijā | *þiustriju |
| Genitive | *þiustrijeʀō | *þiustrijeʀō | *þiustrijeʀō |
| Dative | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum |
| Instrumental | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum | *þiustrijēm, *þiustrijum |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Gąsiorowski, Piotr (2012) “The Germanic reflexes of PIE *-sr- in the context of Verner's Law”, in The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, , →ISSN
- Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 250: “northern WGmc *þiustrī”
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