Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwistiz

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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwistiz

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes- (“extinguish, quell”). Cognate with Sanskrit जासयति (jāsayati, “to exhaust”), Lithuanian gęstù (“to extinguish, to go out”), Irish bás (“death”) and Old Church Slavonic оугасити (ugasiti, “to extinguish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʷis.tiz/

Noun

*kwistiz f[1]

1. damage, destruction

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *kwistiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*kwistiz	*kwistīz
vocative	*kwisti	*kwistīz
accusative	*kwistį	*kwistinz
genitive	*kwistīz	*kwistijǫ̂
dative	*kwistī	*kwistimaz
instrumental	*kwistī	*kwistimiz

Derived terms

• *kwistijaną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *kwisti
  • Old Saxon: *quist
    • Middle Low German: quist
  • Old Dutch: *quist
    • Middle Dutch: quist
  • Old High German: kwist, quist
• Gothic: *𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*qists)
  • ⇒ Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌽𐌰𐌽 (fraqistnan)

References

1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kwisti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 320