Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/haitan

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 *haitaną.

Verb

*haitan[1]

to address, to call
to name
(passive) to be called

Inflection

*haitidi, *hehēt, *hehtun, *haitan; passive *haittē

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

*skuldihaitijō

Descendants

Old English: hātan
- Middle English: haten, hoten
  - English: hote, hight
  - Scots: hate, hait, hecht
Old Frisian: hēta
- Saterland Frisian: heete
- West Frisian: hjitte
Old Saxon: hētan
- Middle Low German: hêten, hêiten
  - German Low German: heiten, heten
Old Dutch: hētan
- Middle Dutch: hêten
  - Dutch: heten
  - Limburgish: heite
Old High German: heizzan
- Middle High German: heizen
  - German: heißen, heissen
  - Luxembourgish: heeschen (fully merged with *aiskōną)
  - Yiddish: הייסן‎ (heysn)
→ Vulgar Latin: *haitō
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *subhaitō
  - Old French: sohaidier
    - Middle French: souhaiter
      - French: souhaiter

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 92: “PWGmc *haitan, *hehēt”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 92: “PWGmc *haitan, *hehēt”