Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/tibā

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

From Proto-Germanic *tibǭ. A geminate byform *tibbǭ > *tibbā gave German dialectal Zippe, Zibbe (“ewe; doe (hare, rabbit)”), Icelandic tebba (“vixen”), and possibly English tib (“working-class woman”).[1]

Noun

*tibā f

bitch, female dog

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*tibā
Genitive	*tibōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*tibā	*tibōn
Accusative	*tibōn	*tibōn
Genitive	*tibōn	*tibōnō
Dative	*tibōn	*tibōm
Instrumental	*tibōn	*tibōm

Descendants

Old English: tife
Old Frisian: *tive, *teve
- Saterland Frisian: Tieuwe
Old Saxon: *tiva
- Middle Low German: teve
  - German Low German: Teve, Teev
  - → Old Norse: tefja
    - Danish: tæve
    - Swedish: täva; (täfsa (dialectal))
Old Dutch: *tiva
- Middle Dutch: tēve
  - Dutch: teef
    - Afrikaans: teef
    - → West Frisian: teef
Old High German: *zippa, zibba
- Middle High German: *zippe, zibbe
  - German: Zippe, Zibbe

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “tib(b)ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “tib(b)ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515