Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hauh
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Adjective
[edit]*hauh (comparative *hauhiʀō, superlative *hauhist)[1]
Inflection
[edit]a-stem | |||
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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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: hēah, hēh; hēa
- Old Frisian: hāch, hāg
- Old Saxon: hōh
- Old Dutch: hō, hōg
- Old High German: hōh
- Middle High German: hōch, hō
- → Old French: haut (conflated with Latin altus) (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ 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”