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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þahsuz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *tótḱ-us, from *tetḱ- (“to weave, braid, add, establish, construct”). Cognate with Latin texō (“weave, braid, build, compose”), Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō), τέχνη (tékhnē), τέκτων (téktōn). Also compare Proto-Celtic *taskos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθɑx.suz/
Noun
*þahsuz m
- badger
Inflection
u-stemDeclension of *þahsuz (u-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *þahsuz | *þahsiwiz | |
vocative | *þahsu | *þahsiwiz | |
accusative | *þahsų | *þahsunz | |
genitive | *þahsauz | *þahsiwǫ̂ | |
dative | *þahsiwi | *þahsumaz | |
instrumental | *þahsū | *þahsumiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þahs
- Old Frisian: *thaks
- Saterland Frisian: Taks
- Old Saxon: thahs
- Middle Low German: das, dasse
- German Low German: Dass
- Middle Low German: das, dasse
- Old Dutch: *thas
- Middle Dutch: das
- Dutch: das
- Afrikaans: das, dassie
- → English: dassie
- Jersey Dutch: dās
- → West Frisian: das
- Afrikaans: das, dassie
- Limburgish: dasj
- West Flemish: das
- Dutch: das
- Middle Dutch: das
- Old High German: dahs
- Middle High German: dahs
- Cimbrian: daks
- German: Dachs
- → German Low German: Dacks
- → Luxembourgish: Dachs
- → Saterland Frisian: Daks
- Hunsrik: Dachs
- Luxembourgish: Duess (archaic)
- Yiddish: דאַקס (daks)
- Middle High German: dahs
- → Late Latin: taxus, taxō (see there for further descendants)
- Old Frisian: *thaks
- Old Norse: þax, þǫx
- Norwegian Nynorsk: toks, ⇒ svintoks
- Swedish: tax
- Danish: taks (obsolete)
- ⇒ Norwegian: svintoks
- Gothic: *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐍃 (*þahsus)
- ⇒ Gothic: *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐌺𐍃 (*þahsuks) (diminutive)
- → Late Latin: *taxūcu (Western Hispania)
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: teixugo
- Portuguese: texugo
- Spanish: tasugo
- Old Portuguese:
- → Late Latin: *taxūcu (Western Hispania)
- ⇒ Gothic: *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐌺𐍃 (*þahsuks) (diminutive)