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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aiwaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéws, reformed as a thematic (a-stem) noun.
Noun
*aiwaz m[1]
- long time, age, eternity
- law[2]
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *aiwaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *aiwaz | *aiwōz, *aiwōs | |
vocative | *aiw | *aiwōz, *aiwōs | |
accusative | *aiwą | *aiwanz | |
genitive | *aiwas, *aiwis | *aiwǫ̂ | |
dative | *aiwai | *aiwamaz | |
instrumental | *aiwō | *aiwamiz |
Alternative forms
- *aiwō
Related terms
- *aiwą
- *aiwį̄
- *aiwiz
- *aiwǭ
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *aiw
- ⇒ Old English: āwa, ā (adverb)
- Middle English: ō, ā
- Old Frisian: ēwa; ēwe, ē
- West Frisian: iuw
- ⇒ Old Frisian: ā (adverb)
- Old Saxon: ēo, ēu, ē (also adverb)
- Middle Low German: ê, ee, eje, ewe
- German Low German: Ehe
- Middle Low German: ê, ee, eje, ewe
- Old Dutch: ēwa
- Middle Dutch: êwe, êeu
- Dutch: eeuw
- Afrikaans: eeu
- Limburgish: ieuw
- Dutch: eeuw
- ⇒ Old Dutch: io (adverb)
- Middle Dutch: ie
- Middle Dutch: êwe, êeu
- Old High German: ēwa, ēo, ēa
- Middle High German: ēwe, ē
- Alemannic German: Ee, E-e
- German: Ehe
- ⇒ Old High German: io (adverb)
- Middle High German: ie
- German: je
- Middle High German: ie
- Middle High German: ēwe, ē
- ⇒ Old English: āwa, ā (adverb)
- Old Norse: æ, ei, ey
- Icelandic: æ
- Old Swedish: ē, ǣ
- Swedish: ä, e, e-
- → Middle English: aye, ai, agg
- English: aye
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (aiws); 𐌰𐌹𐍅 (aiw)
- →? Proto-Finnic: *aika (“time”) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aiwa/ō- 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 16
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aiwa/ō- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 16