Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/puti

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

Borrowed from Latin puteus.

Noun

*puti m[1]

well

Alternative forms

*puttji

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*puti
Genitive	*puttjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*puti	puttjō, puttjōs
Accusative	*puti	*puttjā
Genitive	*puttjas	*puttjō
Dative	*puttjē	*puttjum
Instrumental	*puttju	*puttjum

Descendants

Old English: pytt
- Middle English: pütte, pette, pytte, püt, pit
  - Scots: pytt, pitt
  - English: pit
Old Frisian: pett, pet
- Saterland Frisian: Put
- West Frisian: pet
Old Saxon: putti
- Middle Low German: pütte
  - Low German: Pütt
    - → German: Pütt
- → Old Norse: pyttr
  - Icelandic: pyttur
  - Swedish: puss
  - Danish: pyt
  - Westrobothnian: putt, pott
Old Dutch: *putti, (in toponyms) -pit, -pet
- Middle Dutch: putte, pitte
  - Dutch: put
  - West Flemish: pit
Old High German: pfuzzi, putzi m, fuzze, puzza, buzza f
- Middle High German: pfütze; putze, pütze, butze, bütze
  - German: Pfütze, Pütz
  - Luxembourgish: Pëtz

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *puti, *putʲtʲ-”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *puti, *putʲtʲ-”