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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwaij

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

Uncertain; presumably from Proto-Germanic *hwajjaz ~ *hujjas, *hujis,[1] possibly cognate with:

Noun

*hwaij m

  1. whey

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *hwaij
Genitive *hwaijas
Singular Plural
Nominative *hwaij *hwaijō, *hwaijōs
Accusative *hwaij *hwaijā
Genitive *hwaijas *hwaijō
Dative *hwaijē *hwaijum
Instrumental *hwaiju *hwaijum

Descendants

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hwaja- ~ *huja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 261-262
  2. Rasmussen, J.E. (1990) “Germanic Verscharfung: tying up loose ends”, in Historical Linguistics 1987: papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, 1987
  3. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2009) “wei1”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), volume IV, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
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