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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/haistr

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

Unknown; suggested to be from Proto-Germanic *haistraz, from unattested *haistaz (cut, hewn) + *-draz (tree suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-tó-s, from *kh₂eyd- (to cut, hew) + *-tós.[1][2]

Noun

*haistr m

  1. young tree

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *haistr
Genitive *haistras
Singular Plural
Nominative *haistr *haistrō, *haistrōs
Accusative *haistr *haistrā
Genitive *haistras *haistrō
Dative *haistrē *haistrum
Instrumental *haistru *haistrum

Descendants

  • Old Saxon: *hēstar
  • Old Dutch: *hēster, *heister
  • Old High German: *heistar
  • Vulgar Latin: *hēstrus
    • Old French: hestre
      • Middle French: hestre

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Heister”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 303
  2. Hellquist, Elof (1922) “Hestra, Hester”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 234
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