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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bewwą
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
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Noun
*bewwą n[1]
- crops, yield
- barley
Inflection
| neuter a-stemDeclension of *bewwą (neuter a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *bewwą | *bewwō | |
| vocative | *bewwą | *bewwō | |
| accusative | *bewwą | *bewwō | |
| genitive | *bewwas, *biwwis | *bewwǫ̂ | |
| dative | *biwwai | *bewwamaz | |
| instrumental | *bewwō | *bewwamiz | |
Alternative reconstructions
- *bewwu
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *beuw
- Old English: bēow
- Old Frisian: bē
- Old Saxon: beo, beu
- ⇒ Old Saxon: beuwod, bewod
- Old High German: *beo
- Middle High German: bū, bou (merger with *bū m or n)
- Old Norse: bygg, *biugg, Eastern form
- Icelandic: bygg n
- Faroese: bygg n
- Norwegian: m
- Norwegian Bokmål: bygg
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bygg
- Old Swedish: biug, biugh
- Swedish: bjugg n, bju, bygg, byg, by, bägg
- Old Danish: biug n
- Danish: byg c
- → Middle English: big, byg, byge
- English: bigg, big
- Scots: bigg, big
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bewwa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63