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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/arwīts
Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *arwits, *arwaits
Etymology
Possibly a substrate term related to Latin ervum (“bitter-vetch”), Ancient Greek ὄροβος (órobos, “bitter-vetch”), ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos, “chickpea”) and to Middle Armenian առուոյտ (aṙuoyt, “alfalfa”).
Noun
*arwīts f[1]
- pea
Inflection
consonant stemDeclension of *arwīts (consonant stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *arwīts | *arwītiz | |
vocative | *arwīt | *arwītiz | |
accusative | *arwītų | *arwītunz | |
genitive | *arwītiz | *arwītǫ̂ | |
dative | *arwīti | *arwītumaz | |
instrumental | *arwītē | *arwītumiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *arwīt, *arwait
- Old Frisian: *erit
- Saterland Frisian: Aate
- West Frisian: eart
- Old Saxon: erit, eriwit
- Middle Low German: erwete, erwitte, arwete, erwte, erfte, arfte, arvete, ērte
- German Low German: Arvte, Arvt
- Middle Low German: erwete, erwitte, arwete, erwte, erfte, arfte, arvete, ērte
- Old Dutch: *erwit, *erewit
- Middle Dutch: erwete
- Dutch: erwt
- Afrikaans: ertjie
- → Xhosa: i-ertyisi
- → Indonesian: ercis
- → Papiamentu: ert (dated)
- → Sranan Tongo: erki
- Afrikaans: ertjie
- Dutch: erwt
- Middle Dutch: erwete
- Old High German: arawīz, araweiz, arawez, areweiz, arewez, arewiz, arewurz, ariwez, arwiz, arwuz, erewiz, erit, erivit, eriwiz, erwez, erwiz, harviz, hereviz
- Middle High German: erweiz, erbeiz, arwīs, arwīz, areweiz
- Bavarian: Arbaiß
- Cimbrian: érbasa
- Central Franconian: Ääz, Eerz (Ripuarian), Arwes, Erwes, Erbes, Erres (Moselle Franconian)
- Luxembourgish: Ierbes
- German: Erbse
- Yiddish: אַרבעס (arbes)
- Bavarian: Arbaiß
- Middle High German: erweiz, erbeiz, arwīs, arwīz, areweiz
- Old Frisian: *erit
- Old Norse: ertr (pl.) (likely borrowed from Low German)
- Danish: ært
- Elfdalian: ert
- Faroese: ertur
- Icelandic: erta
- Norwegian Bokmål: ert
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ert
- Old Swedish: ært
- Swedish: ärt, ärta
- Westrobothnian: äʈʈer, ęttęr, ätter
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*arwīt-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 37