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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skuldihaitijō
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *skuldi (“tribute, debts, crime”) + *haitijō (“caller, leader”).
Noun
*skuldihaitijō f[1]
- one who settles debts, a legal officer
Declension
| Masculine an-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *skuldihaitijō | |
| Genitive | *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *skuldihaitijō | *skuldihaitijan |
| Accusative | *skuldihaitijan | *skuldihaitijan |
| Genitive | *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan | *skuldihaitijanō |
| Dative | *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan | *skuldihaitijum |
| Instrumental | *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan | *skuldihaitijum |
Alternative reconstructions
- *skuldihaitijā[2]
Descendants
- Old English: sċyldhǣta, sċuldhēta
- Old Frisian: skeltāta, skelta, schelta
- Old Saxon: skuldhētio
- Middle Low German: schulthete, schultete, schulte
- Old Dutch: skolthēti
- Middle Dutch: sculthete, schouthete, schouthet, scoutete, scoute, scout, scouthate, scoutate, schouteet, schoutate, schoutaet, schouthate, schoutete, schoutheit, schouteit schoutet, schoute, schout, scholte, schulte, scholtis, schoutent
- Dutch: schout
- Berbice Creole Dutch: skotu
- → Caribbean Javanese: sekaut, skaut
- → English: schout
- → Indonesian: sekaut
- → Javanese: sekaut
- → Sranan Tongo: skowtu
- → Aukan: sikowtu
- → Caribbean Hindustani: skoutu, skotu
- → Dutch: skotoe
- → Saramaccan: sikooútu
- → Trió: sikoutu
- Dutch: schout
- Middle Dutch: sculthete, schouthete, schouthet, scoutete, scoute, scout, scouthate, scoutate, schouteet, schoutate, schoutaet, schouthate, schoutete, schoutheit, schouteit schoutet, schoute, schout, scholte, schulte, scholtis, schoutent
- Old High German: sculdheizo, scultheizzo, schultheizo, sculthaizeo, scultheizo
- Middle High German: schultheize, schultheiz
- German: Schulze, Schultheiß
- → Hungarian: soltész
- → Polish: sołtys
- → Romanian: șoltuz
- Middle High German: schultheize, schultheiz
- Lombardic: schuldhais
- → Medieval Latin: sculdasius, sculdachius
- Italian: sculdascio
- → Medieval Latin: sculdasius, sculdachius
- → Latin: scultetus
- → Italian: scoltetto
Further reading
- Boutkan, Dirk; Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005), “skeltata”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 347
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235: “PWGmc *skuldihaitijō”
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Schultheiß”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 655: “wg. *skuldihait(j)ōn”