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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-inī
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From a Pre-Germanic proterokinetic compound suffix *-én-ih₂ ~ *-n̥-yéh₂-. Compare Proto-Slavic *-yni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.niː/
Suffix
*-inī f[1]
- Forms nouns indicating a female individual.
Inflection
The suffix appears to have ablauted between *-inī in the nominative and *-unjō- in the rest of the paradigm.[1]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Proto-Germanic terms suffixed with *-inī
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *-ini
- Old English: -en
- Middle English: -en
- English: -en (fossilised, non-productive)
- Middle English: -en
- Old Frisian:
- West Frisian: -inne
- North Frisian: -in
- Old Saxon: -ina, -unnia
- Middle Low German: -inne, -in
- Low German: -in
- → Old Norse: -inna
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: -inne
- Norwegian Nynorsk: -inne
- Old Danish: -inne
- Danish: -inde
- Old Swedish: -inna
- Swedish: -inna
- → Finnish: -inna
- Norwegian:
- Middle Low German: -inne, -in
- Old Dutch: -inna
- Middle Dutch: -inne
- Dutch: -in
- Afrikaans: -in
- Limburgish: -in
- Dutch: -in
- Middle Dutch: -inne
- Old High German: -in, -inna
- Middle High German: -īn, -inne
- German: -in
- Alemannic German: -in
- Middle High German: -īn, -inne
- Old English: -en
- Old Norse: -ynja (extended to ōn-stem, rare)
- Icelandic: -ynja
- Gothic: -𐌹𐌽𐌹 (-ini)
Further reading
- “-inde” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
References
- Johnsen, Sverre (May 2005) The Germanic (i)jō-stem declension, University of Oslo