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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wētaz
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛː.tɑz/
Adjective
*wētaz
- wet
Inflection
Declension of *wētaz (a-stem)
| Strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||
| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *wētaz | *wētai | *wētō | *wētôz | *wētą, -atō | *wētō |
| Accusative | *wētanǭ | *wētanz | *wētǭ | *wētōz | *wētą, -atō | *wētō |
| Genitive | *wētas, -is | *wētaizǫ̂ | *wētaizōz | *wētaizǫ̂ | *wētas, -is | *wētaizǫ̂ |
| Dative | *wētammai | *wētaimaz | *wētaizōi | *wētaimaz | *wētammai | *wētaimaz |
| Instrumental | *wētanō | *wētaimiz | *wētaizō | *wētaimiz | *wētanō | *wētaimiz |
| Weak declension | ||||||
| Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||
| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *wētô | *wētaniz | *wētǭ | *wētōniz | *wētô | *wētōnō |
| Accusative | *wētanų | *wētanunz | *wētōnų | *wētōnunz | *wētô | *wētōnō |
| Genitive | *wētiniz | *wētanǫ̂ | *wētōniz | *wētōnǫ̂ | *wētiniz | *wētanǫ̂ |
| Dative | *wētini | *wētammaz | *wētōni | *wētōmaz | *wētini | *wētammaz |
| Instrumental | *wētinē | *wētammiz | *wētōnē | *wētōmiz | *wētinē | *wētammiz |
Synonyms
- *nataz
Derived terms
- *wētijaną
- *wētijǭ
- *wētô
Descendants
- Old English: wǣt
- Middle English: wāt, wēt, weet
- Scots: weet, weit
- English: weet (dialectal)
- Middle English: wāt, wēt, weet
- Old Frisian: wēt
- North Frisian: weet, wiat, wäit
- Saterland Frisian: wäit
- West Frisian: wiet
- Old Norse: vátr
- Icelandic: votur
- Faroese: vátur
- Norwegian: våt
- Old Swedish: vāter
- Swedish: våt
- Old Danish: wātær
- Danish: våd
- Westrobothnian: vot