Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/haistr

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

Unknown; suggested to be from Proto-Germanic *haistraz, from unattested *haistaz (“cut, hewn”) +‎ *-draz (tree suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-tó-s, from *kh₂eyd- (“to cut, hew”) +‎ *-tós.[1][2]

Noun

*haistr m

young tree

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*haistr
Genitive	*haistras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*haistr	haistrō, haistrōs
Accusative	*haistr	*haistrā
Genitive	*haistras	*haistrō
Dative	*haistrē	*haistrum
Instrumental	*haistru	*haistrum

Descendants

Old Saxon: *hēstar
- Middle Low German: hēster, heister
  - German Low German: Heester, Heister, Häister
  - → Swedish: hestra, hester
Old Dutch: *hēster, *heister
- Middle Dutch: heester
  - Dutch: heester
Old High German: *heistar
- Middle High German: heister
  - German: Heister
→ Vulgar Latin: *hēstrus
- Old French: hestre
  - Middle French: hestre
    - French: hêtre

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Heister”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 303
Hellquist, Elof (1922), “Hestra, Hester”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 234

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Heister”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 303

[2] Hellquist, Elof (1922), “Hestra, Hester”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 234