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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/awjō
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From earlier *agwjō, originally a substantive adjective related to *ahwō (“water; stream, river”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯.jɔː/
Noun
*awjō f[1]
- floodplain; meadow
- island
Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *awjō (ō-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *awjō | *awjôz | |
vocative | *awjō | *awjôz | |
accusative | *awjǭ | *awjōz | |
genitive | *awjōz | *awjǫ̂ | |
dative | *awjōi | *awjōmaz | |
instrumental | *awjō | *awjōmiz |
Derived terms
- *awjōlandą (“island”)
- *Batawjō (“Batavia”)
- *gawją (“district, shire”)
- *Skadinawjō (“Scandia”)
Related terms
- *ahwō
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *auwju
- Old English: īeġ, ēġ, īġ
- Middle English: ei, i, ie
- English: ey
- ⇒ Old English: igeoþ, iġoþ, iġgoþ, iġgaþ
- Middle English: eyt, æit, ait
- English: eyot, ait
- Middle English: eyt, æit, ait
- Middle English: ei, i, ie
- Old Frisian: ā
- Saterland Frisian: Äi
- Old Saxon: ōia
- Middle Low German: ouwe, ou, ow, ō (in compounds)
- Old Dutch: ōi, *owe
- Middle Dutch: ooy, ouwe
- Dutch: ooibos, landouw
- Middle Dutch: ooy, ouwe
- Old High German: ouwa
- Middle High German: ouwe
- German: Au, Aue
- Luxembourgish: A
- Middle High German: ouwe
- Old English: īeġ, ēġ, īġ
- Old Norse: ey, ei, æ
- Icelandic: ey f, eyja f
- Faroese: oyggj f, oy f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: øy
- Norwegian Bokmål: øy
- Westrobothnian: öy, oi
- Old Swedish: ø̄
- Swedish: ö c
- Danish: ø c
- → English: oe
- Gutnish: oy
- → English: -ey, -ay (in place names)
- → Old Irish: í f
- Irish: í f
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aujō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 41