Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aihti

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aihtiz.

Noun

*aihti f

possessions, property
Synonym: *fehu

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*aihti
Genitive	*aihtī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*aihti	*aihtī
Accusative	*aihti	*aihtī
Genitive	*aihtī	*aihtijō
Dative	*aihtī	aihtim, aihtijum
Instrumental	*aihtī	aihtim, aihtijum

Descendants

Old English: ǣht
- Middle English: aught, ought
  - English: aught, ought
  - Scots: aucht
Old Saxon: ēht
- ⇒ Old Saxon: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
  - Middle Low German: vracht
    - German Low German: fracht
    - → Middle Dutch: vracht
      - Dutch: vracht
        Afrikaans: vrag
    - → Danish: fragt
    - → English: freight, fraught (possibly via Middle Dutch)
    - → German: Fracht
    - → Gutnish: frakt
    - → Norwegian: frakt (possibly via Middle Dutch)
    - → Swedish: frakt
Old Dutch: *ēht
- ⇒ Old Dutch: *frēht
  - Middle Dutch: vrecht
Old High German: ēht