Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þing

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 *þingą.

Noun

*þing n[1]

court session, lawsuit
affair, matter
thing, object

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*þing	*þingu
Accusative	*þing	*þingu
Genitive	*þingas	*þingō
Dative	*þingē	*þingum
Instrumental	*þingu	*þingum

Descendants

Old English: þing, þinċġ, þingc
- Middle English: thing
  - English: thing
  - Scots: thing, ting, hing
  - Yola: dhing
Old Frisian: thing
- West Frisian: ding
Old Saxon: thing
- Middle Low German: dink
  - German Low German: Ding, Dinkj
  - Plautdietsch: Dinkj
Old Dutch: thing
- Middle Dutch: dinc
  - Dutch: ding
    - Afrikaans: ding
  - Limburgish: dink, ding
Old High German: thing, ding, dink
- Middle High German: ding
  - Cimbrian: ding
  - German: Ding
  - Luxembourgish: Déngen
  - Pennsylvania German: Ding

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 128: “PWGmc *þing”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 128: “PWGmc *þing”