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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wetmō

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 *wetmô.[1]

Noun

*wetmō m[2][3]

  1. dowry, bride price

Inflection
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *wetmō
Genitive *wetmini, *wetman
Singular Plural
Nominative *wetmō *wetman
Accusative *wetman *wetman
Genitive *wetmini, *wetman *wetmanō
Dative *wetmini, *wetman *wetmum
Instrumental *wetmini, *wetman *wetmum

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: wituma, wetma, uuituma, weotoma, weotuma, weoþuma
  • Old Frisian: wetma, witma
  • Old Saxon: withumo
    • Middle Low German: wēdeme, widdem
  • Old Dutch: withemo
    • Middle Dutch: wedeme, wedem, weeme, weme
      • Dutch: weem
        • → West Frisian: weme
  • Old High German: widamo, widomo, widemo
    • Middle High German: wideme, widem

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wetman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 583
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Wittum”, 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 796: “wg. *wetmōn”
  3. Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “withume”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 453: “PWGmc. *wetmōn”
  4. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*weþman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 583
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