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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mēgaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Suggested to be related to *maguz (“boy, relative”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛː.ɣɑz/
Noun
*mēgaz m
- son-in-law; or more generally, a relative through marriage
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *mēgaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *mēgaz | *mēgōz, *mēgōs | |
vocative | *mēg | *mēgōz, *mēgōs | |
accusative | *mēgą | *mēganz | |
genitive | *mēgas, *mēgis | *mēgǫ̂ | |
dative | *mēgai | *mēgamaz | |
instrumental | *mēgō | *mēgamiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *māg
- Old English: mǣġ
- Middle English: mæȝ, mæi, meȝ, mei
- English: may (“kinsman, person”) (obsolete)
- Middle English: mæȝ, mæi, meȝ, mei
- Old Frisian: mēch
- North Frisian: meeg
- Old Saxon: māg
- Middle Low German: mâch
- Old Dutch: *māg
- Middle Dutch: mâech
- Dutch: maag
- Middle Dutch: mâech
- Old High German: māg
- Middle High German: māc
- German: Mage
- Middle High German: māc
- Old English: mǣġ
- Old Norse: mágr
- Icelandic: mágur
- Faroese: mágur
- Norwegian: måg
- Old Swedish: māgher
- Swedish: måg
- Old Danish: māgh
- Danish: måg
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌲𐍃 (mēgs)
- →? Proto-Finnic: *mees (“man”) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “mega”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 361