Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hanhasinwō

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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hanhasinwō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Alternative forms

• *hanhasinawō[1], *hanhsinwō[2]

Etymology

From *hanhaz (“heel”) +‎ *senawō (“tendon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑ̃ː.xɑ.ˌsin.wɔː/

Noun

*hanhasinwō f[1][2]

1. Achilles tendon, hamstring

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *hanhasinwō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*hanhasinwō	*hanhasinwôz
vocative	*hanhasinwō	*hanhasinwôz
accusative	*hanhasinwǭ	*hanhasinwōz
genitive	*hanhasinwōz	*hanhasinwǫ̂
dative	*hanhasinwōi	*hanhasinwōmaz
instrumental	*hanhasinwō	*hanhasinwōmiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *hą̄hasinu
  • Old English: hōhsinu, hōhsino
    • Middle English: hokschyne, *hoxene (often remodelled after schyne "shin")
      • English: huxen, huckson, huxon; huckshin, hucksheen (dialectal, obsolete)
  • Old Frisian: hōxene, hōxne
  • Old Dutch: *hāhsena, *hāssena
    • Middle Dutch: hâesen, hâesene
      • Dutch: haas
        • → Indonesian: has
      • Limburgish: haos
  • Old High German: hāhsina, hāhsna
    • Middle High German: hahsen, hæhsen, hehsen pl
      • Alemannic German:

        Swabian: Haxa

      • German: Hachse, Hechse, Haxe
      • Luxembourgish: Héiss
      • Rhine Franconian:

        Palatine German: Hees, Hess

        Pennsylvania German: Heese

      • Vilamovian: haoks
• Old Norse: hásin

References

1. Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*xanxa-sin(a)wō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 160
2. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Hachse”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN