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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þegn
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þegnaz.
Noun
*þegn m[1]
- retainer, follower, servant
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *þegn | |
Genitive | *þegnas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *þegn | *þegnō, *þegnōs |
Accusative | *þegn | *þegnā |
Genitive | *þegnas | *þegnō |
Dative | *þegnē | *þegnum |
Instrumental | *þegnu | *þegnum |
Derived terms
- *þegnōn
Descendants
- Old English: þeġn
- Middle English: theyn, dain, thain, thayn, thein, þen, þein, þeyn; ðæin, þægen, þægn, þegen, þegn, þeȝn, þeign
- English: thane
- Scots: thane
- → Irish: taen
- → Medieval Latin: thainus
- Middle English: theyn, dain, thain, thayn, thein, þen, þein, þeyn; ðæin, þægen, þægn, þegen, þegn, þeȝn, þeign
- Old Saxon: thegan
- Old Dutch: *thegen (in derivatives and compounds)
- Middle Dutch: dēgen
- Dutch: degen
- Middle Dutch: dēgen
- Old High German: degan
- Middle High German: dëgen
- German: Degen
- Middle High German: dëgen
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 330: “PWGmc *þegn”