gheie
Alemannic German
Etymology
Verbal derivative of Middle High German heie (“hammer, club”), from Old High German heia, from Proto-Germanic *hajaną (“to pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kh₂ey- (“to hew”), possibly reanalyzed from *sekh₂- (“to cut”).[1] Compare Luxembourgish Heel (“hoe”).
Pronunciation
- (Zurich) IPA(key): /keiə/
Verb
gheie (third-person singular simple present gheit, past participle gheit, past subjunctive gheiti, auxiliary sii)
- to fall
- to become
Derived terms
- abegheie
- drigheie
- umgheie
- usgheie
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hajan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203