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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/haistr
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]
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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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
- French: hêtre
- Middle French: hestre
- Old French: hestre
References
- 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
- 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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