Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þikkwī

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þikkwī

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *þekuz.

Adjective

*þikkwī[1]

1. thick

Inflection

ja-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*þikkwī
Genitive	*þikkwijas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*þikkwī	*þikkwiju	*þikkwī
Accusative	*þikkwijanā	*þikkwijā	*þikkwī
Genitive	*þikkwijas	*þikkwijeʀā	*þikkwijas
Dative	*þikkwijumē	*þikkwijeʀē	*þikkwijumē
Instrumental	*þikkwiju	*þikkwijeʀu	*þikkwiju
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*þikkwijē	*þikkwijō	*þikkwiju
Accusative	*þikkwijā	*þikkwijā	*þikkwiju
Genitive	*þikkwijeʀō	*þikkwijeʀō	*þikkwijeʀō
Dative	*þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum	*þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum	*þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum
Instrumental	*þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum	*þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum	*þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum

Descendants

• Old English: þicce
  • Middle English: thicke, thikke, thykke, thik, þikke, thyke
    • English: thick
    • Scots: thik, thicke, thick
• Old Frisian: thikke
  • Saterland Frisian: tjuk
  • West Frisian: tsjok, tsjûk
• Old Saxon: thikki
  • Middle Low German: dicke
    • Low German: dick
    • Plautdietsch: dikj
• Old Dutch: *thicki
  • Middle Dutch: dicke
    • Dutch: dik
      • Afrikaans: dik
      • → Papiamentu: diki
      • → Sranan Tongo: deki
    • Limburgish: diek
    • Zealandic: dik
• Old High German: dicchi, dichi, dicki, dihhi, thichi, thihhi, thiki, ticchi
  • Middle High German: dicke, dic
    • Central Franconian: deck
    • Cimbrian: dikh, dikhe
    • German: dick
    • Luxembourgish: déck
    • Pennsylvania German: dick
    • Yiddish: דיק‎ (dik)

References

1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49: “PWGmc *þikkwī”