Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hagatusi

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

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Noun

*hagatusi f[1]

witch

Inflection

ī/jō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hagatusi
Genitive	*hagatussjā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hagatusi	*hagatussjō
Accusative	*hagatussjā	*hagatussjā
Genitive	*hagatussjā	*hagatussjō
Dative	*hagatussjē	*hagatussjōm
Instrumental	*hagatussju	*hagatussjōm

Descendants

Old English: hægtesse, hægtes, hegtes
- Middle English: hagge, hegge
  - English: hag
Old Frisian: *hegtesse, *hexe
- Saterland Frisian: Häkse
- West Frisian: hekse
Old Saxon: *hagatusia
- Middle Low German: *hagetusse
  - Plautdietsch: Hakjs
  - → Norwegian: haugtusse, haugtuss
Old Dutch: *hagatissa
- Middle Dutch: hagetisse
  - Dutch: hagedis (dialectal)
Old High German: hagazussa (also found with hag-, hā-, -zas(sa), -zis(sa)), hagzissa, hāzus
- Middle High German: hecse
  - German: Hexe
    - → Polish: heks
    - → Danish: heks
    - → Dutch: heks
    - → Swedish: häxa
  - Luxembourgish: Hex

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 192: “PWGmc *hagatusi, *hagatusʲsʲā-”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 192: “PWGmc *hagatusi, *hagatusʲsʲā-”