Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fiuhtijā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 *fiuhtijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *péwḱ-t-ih₂, from *pewḱ- (“pine”).[1][2]

Noun

*fiuhtijā f

spruce

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fiuhtijā
Genitive	*fiuhtijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fiuhtijā	*fiuhtijōn
Accusative	*fiuhtijōn	*fiuhtijōn
Genitive	*fiuhtijōn	*fiuhtijōnō
Dative	*fiuhtijōn	*fiuhtijōm
Instrumental	*fiuhtijōn	*fiuhtijōm

Descendants

Old Saxon: fiuhtia
- Middle Low German: *füchte
  - German Low German: Fücht
    - Plautdietsch: Fijcht
Old High German: fiuhta
- Middle High German: viehte
  - Cimbrian: vòichta, bòichta, vaücht
  - German: Fichte
  - Luxembourgish: Fiicht

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Fichte”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213: “vor-d. *feuht(j)ōn f. ‘Fichte’”
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*feuhtjon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 139

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Fichte”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213: “vor-d. *feuht(j)ōn f. ‘Fichte’”

[2] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*feuhtjon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 139