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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aihti
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aihtiz.
Noun
*aihti f
- possessions, property
Inflection
i-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *aihti | |
Genitive | *aihtī | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *aihti | *aihtī |
Accusative | *aihti | *aihtī |
Genitive | *aihtī | *aihtijō |
Dative | *aihtī | *aihtim |
Instrumental | *aihtī | *aihtim |
Descendants
- Old English: ǣht
- Middle English: aught, ought
- English: aught, ought
- Scots: aucht
- Middle English: aught, ought
- Old Saxon: ēht
- ⇒ Old Saxon: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
- Middle Low German: vracht
- German Low German: fracht
- → Middle Dutch: vracht
- Dutch: vracht
- Afrikaans: vrag
- Dutch: vracht
- → Danish: fragt
- → English: freight, fraught (possibly via Middle Dutch)
- → German: Fracht
- → Gutnish: frakt
- → Norwegian: frakt (possibly via Middle Dutch)
- → Swedish: frakt
- Middle Low German: vracht
- ⇒ Old Saxon: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
- Old Dutch: *ēht
- ⇒ Old Dutch: *frēht
- Middle Dutch: vrecht
- → Old French: fret
- French: fret
- → Portuguese: frete
- → Spanish: flete
- → Galician: frete
- French: fret
- → Old French: fret
- Middle Dutch: vrecht
- ⇒ Old Dutch: *frēht
- Old High German: ēht