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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wītī
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wītiją.
Noun
*wītī n[1]
- punishment
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *wītī | *wītiju |
Accusative | *wītī | *wītiju |
Genitive | *wītijas | *wītijō |
Dative | *wītijē | *wītijum |
Instrumental | *wītiju | *wītijum |
Derived terms
- *wītinōn
Descendants
- Old English: wīte
- Middle English: wite
- Scots: wyte
- → Latin: wīta
- Middle English: wite
- Old Frisian: wīte
- Old Saxon: wīti
- Middle Low German: wīte
- Dutch: wijte
- Old High German: wīzi
- Middle High German: wīze
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47: “PWGmc *wītī”