Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hauh

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 *hauhaz.

Adjective

*hauh (comparative *hauhiʀō, superlative *hauhist)^[1]

high

Inflection

a-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*hauh
Genitive	*hauhas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*hauh	*hauhu	*hauh
Accusative	*hauhanā	*hauhā	*hauh
Genitive	*hauhas	*hauheʀā	*hauhas
Dative	*hauhumē	*hauheʀē	*hauhumē
Instrumental	*hauhu	*hauheʀu	*hauhu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*hauhē	*hauhō	*hauhu
Accusative	*hauhā	*hauhā	*hauhu
Genitive	*hauheʀō	*hauheʀō	*hauheʀō
Dative	hauhēm, hauhum	hauhēm, hauhum	hauhēm, hauhum
Instrumental	hauhēm, hauhum	hauhēm, hauhum	hauhēm, hauhum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: hēah, hēh, hēa — adverb
- Middle English: heigh
  - English: high, heigh (dialectal)
    - Sranan Tongo: hei
    - → German: high
    - → Polish: haj
  - Scots: heich
  - Yola: heigh, heighe, heegh, hia, hie
- Scots: he-, hey-
Old Frisian: hāch, hāg
- North Frisian: huuch (Föhr-Amrum)
- Saterland Frisian: hoog
- West Frisian: heech
Old Saxon: hōh
- Middle Low German: hôch, hô
  - Low German: hoog
    - German Low German: hooch, hoog
  - Plautdietsch: hüag, huag
Old Dutch: hōh
- Middle Dutch: hôoch, hô
  - Dutch: hoog, hooge (archaic)
    - Afrikaans: hoog
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: hogo
    - Jersey Dutch: hôx
    - Negerhollands: hoog, hok
    - Skepi Creole Dutch: hug, oag
Old High German: hōh, haoh (Bavarian, up to the early 9th C.)
- Middle High German: hōch, hō
  - Alemannic German: hooch
    Walser: hoch, hòch
    Swabian: hauch
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: hoach, hòach (Sette Comuni)
    Mòcheno: heach
    Northern Bavarian: [hɔːu̯ɣ̊], (comparative) [ˈhɛi̯xɐ], (superlative) [ˈhɛi̯kst]
  - Central Franconian: huh, hiech, hieh (western Moselle Franconian)
    Hunsrik: hogh
    Luxembourgish: héich, héi
  - German: hoch
  - Rhine Franconian: houch, hauch, hoch, hok, houk, huch, huk
    Frankfurterisch: [hoːx], (comparative) [heːʒ̥æ̆], (superlative) [he(ː)kst]
    Pennsylvania German: hooch
  - Vilamovian: huch
  - Yiddish: הויך (hoykh)
→ Old French: haut (conflated with Latin altus) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 315: “PWGmc *hauh”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 315: “PWGmc *hauh”

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