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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lēkijaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from *lēkiz (“healing; medicine; healer”) + *-jaz, or borrowed from Proto-Celtic *lēgis[1][2] of the same root.[3] Perhaps also from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”), and thus related to Latin legō.[4][5]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛː.ki.jɑz/
Noun
*lēkijaz m[6][1][2][3]
- doctor, physician
Inflection
masculine ja-stemDeclension of *lēkijaz (masculine ja-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *lēkijaz | *lēkijōz, *lēkijōs | |
vocative | *lēkī | *lēkijōz, *lēkijōs | |
accusative | *lēkiją | *lēkijanz | |
genitive | *lēkijas, *lēkīs | *lēkijǫ̂ | |
dative | *lēkijai | *lēkijamaz | |
instrumental | *lēkijō | *lēkijamiz |
Derived terms
- *lēkinōną
Related terms
- *lēkijǭ
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *lākī
- Old English: lǣċe
- Middle English: leche
- English: leech
- Middle English: leche
- Old Frisian: lēka, lētza
- Old High German: lāhhi
- Old English: lǣċe
- Old Norse:
- Old East Norse: *lækir
- Old West Norse: læknir
- Icelandic: læknir
- Faroese: lækni
- Old Swedish: lǣkir, lǣkiare
- Swedish: läkare
- → Finnish: lääkäri, lääke
- → Norwegian:
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lækjar
- Old Danish: lægæ, legi
- Danish: læge
- → Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: lege
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lege
- → Norwegian:
- Danish: læge
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis)
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*lēkjaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 244
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 296: “*lēkijaz”
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*lēkja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 331
- https://www.etymonline.com/word/leech
- https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leg-?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_52572
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “leg̑-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 658: “*lēkja-”