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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fiuhtijā

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

From Proto-Germanic *fiuhtijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *péwḱ-t-ih₂, from *pewḱ- (“pine”).[1][2]

Noun

*fiuhtijā f

  1. spruce

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *fiuhtijā
Genitive *fiuhtijōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *fiuhtijā *fiuhtijōn
Accusative *fiuhtijōn *fiuhtijōn
Genitive *fiuhtijōn *fiuhtijōnō
Dative *fiuhtijōn *fiuhtijōm, *fiuhtijum
Instrumental *fiuhtijōn *fiuhtijōm, *fiuhtijum

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: fiuhtia
    • Middle Low German: *füchte
      • German Low German: Fücht
        • Plautdietsch: Fijcht
  • Old High German: fiuhta

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fichte”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213: “vor-d. *feuht(j)ōn f. ‘Fichte’”
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*feuhtjon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 139
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