Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwaitī

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 *hwaitijaz.

Noun

*hwaitī m[1]

  1. wheat

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
Singular
Nominative *hwaitī
Genitive *hwaitijas
Singular Plural
Nominative *hwaitī *hwaitijō, *hwaitijōs
Accusative *hwaitī *hwaitijā
Genitive *hwaitijas *hwaitijō
Dative *hwaitijē *hwaitijum
Instrumental *hwaitiju *hwaitijum

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwaitī”
  2. ^ “quhete”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  3. ^ “white”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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