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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gamainiskapi
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *gamainī + *-skapi.
Noun
*gamainiskapi m[1]
- community
Inflection
i-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *gamainiskapi | |
Genitive | *gamainiskapī | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *gamainiskapi | *gamainiskapī |
Accusative | *gamainiskapi | *gamainiskapī |
Genitive | *gamainiskapī | *gamainiskappjō |
Dative | *gamainiskapī | *gamainiskapim |
Instrumental | *gamainiskapī | *gamainiskapim |
Descendants
- Old English: ġemǣnsċipe
- Old Dutch: *gimēnscap
- Middle Dutch: gemêenscap
- Dutch: gemeenschap
- Middle Dutch: gemêenscap
- Old High German: gimeinscaf
- German: Gemeinschaft
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 132: “PWGmc *gamainiskapi”