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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/uftō
Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *ufta
Etymology
Uncertain; according to Kroonen, derived from *ub (“under”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuɸ.tɔː/
Adverb
*uftō
- oft; often
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *oftō
- Old English: oft
- Middle English: oft, ofte, often
- Scots: oft, oftin, aften
- English: oft, often
- → Esperanto: ofte
- → Ido: ofte
- → Esperanto: ofte
- Middle English: oft, ofte, often
- Old Frisian: ofta, ofte
- North Frisian: oft, oftem
- Saterland Frisian: oafte
- West Frisian: ofte, oft
- Old Saxon: ofto, oft
- Middle Low German: ofte, oft
- Low German: oft
- Middle Low German: ofte, oft
- Old Dutch: *ofto
- Middle Dutch: ofte, oft
- Dutch: oft
- Middle Dutch: ofte, oft
- Old High German: ofto
- Middle High German: ofte, oft
- German: oft
- Middle High German: ofte, oft
- Old English: oft
- Old Norse: opt, oft
- Icelandic: oft, ott
- Faroese: ofta
- Norwegian: ofte
- Old Swedish: opta
- Swedish: ofta
- Danish: ofte
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐍄𐌰 (ufta)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “ufto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558