Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skaiþiju

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 *skaiþiz.

Noun

*skaiþiju f[1]

sheath

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skaiþiju
Genitive	*skaiþijā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skaiþiju	*skaiþijō
Accusative	*skaiþijā	*skaiþijā
Genitive	*skaiþijā	*skaiþijō
Dative	*skaiþijē	skaiþijōm, skaiþijum
Instrumental	*skaiþiju	skaiþijōm, skaiþijum

Descendants

Old English: sċēaþ
- Middle English: shethe, sheth, schethe, scheth
  - English: sheath, sheathe
Old Frisian: skēthe
Old Saxon: sceitha
- Low German: scheed
Old Dutch: *skētha
- Middle Dutch: schêde
  - Dutch: schede
Old High German: sceida, skaida
- Middle High German: scheide
  - German: Scheide
  - Hunsrik: Scheed
  - Luxembourgish: Scheed
  - Yiddish: שייד (sheyd)

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235: “PWGmc *skaiþiju”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235: “PWGmc *skaiþiju”