Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wīwô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁-ow-, from *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”).[1] Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ἱέρᾱξ (hiérāx, “hawk, eagle”) and αἰετός (aietós, “eagle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiː.wɔːː/

Noun

*wīwô m[1]

  1. bird of prey (heron, kite, falcon)

Inflection

Ablauting an-stem.

Declension of *wīwô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *wīwô *wīwaniz
vocative *wīwô *wīwaniz
accusative *wīwanų *wīwanunz
genitive *wīwiniz *wīwanǫ̂
dative *wīwini *wīwammaz
instrumental *wīwinē *wīwammiz

Descendants

  • Old Saxon: *wīwo
    • Middle Low German: wîe, wîhe
      • Low German: Wieh
  • Old Dutch: *wīwo, *wiuwo, weio
  • Old High German: wīwo, wīgo, wīo
    • Middle High German: wīwe, wīe, wewe
      • German: Weihe, Weih
        • →? Pennsylvania German: Woi
        • →? Saterland Frisian: Wäie
  • Old Norse: *vé (possibly unrelated[2])
    • ⇒ Old Norse: langvé
      • Icelandic: langvía
      • >? Icelandic: langvígi
      • >? Faroese: lomvigi
      • >? Norwegian Nynorsk: langve, lomvie, langvie
      • Swedish: lomvia
      • → Irish: lamhaidh

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wī̆wan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 590
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎[2], Leiden: Leiden University, page 93
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