Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/auhaim

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz.

Noun

*auhaim m[1]

maternal uncle

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*auhaim
Genitive	*auhaimas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*auhaim	auhaimō, auhaimōs
Accusative	*auhaim	*auhaimā
Genitive	*auhaimas	*auhaimō
Dative	*auhaimē	*auhaimum
Instrumental	*auhaimu	*auhaimum

Descendants

Old English: ēam, eom, æm
- Middle English: eme, eem
  - Scots: eme, eyme, eym
  - English: eam
Old Frisian: *ām, ēm
- North Frisian: ohm
- Saterland Frisian: Oom
- West Frisian: iem, yem, yeme
Old Saxon: *ōhēm
- Middle Low German: ōhem, ōm
  - Low German: Ohm
    Münsterländisch: Low German: Öhms (plural)
  - Plautdietsch: Oom
Old Dutch: *ōm
- Middle Dutch: ôom
  - Dutch: oom
    - Afrikaans: oom
    - → Indonesian: om
    - → West Frisian: omme, omke
    - → Sranan Tongo: omu
  - Limburgish: oeam
Old High German: ōheim
- Middle High German: ōheim; (Central German) ōhem, ōem
  - German: Oheim, Ohm (partly from Low German), Oehm

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*auhaim”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*auhaim”