Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/brahtm
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably related to *brekaną (“to break”) and *brahtaz (“cracking, snapping, noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to crash, break”).[1]
Noun[edit]
*brahtm m[2]
Inflection[edit]
| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *brahtm | |
| Genitive | *brahtmas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *brahtm | *brahtmō, *brahtmōs |
| Accusative | *brahtm | *brahtmā |
| Genitive | *brahtmas | *brahtmō |
| Dative | *brahtmē | *brahtmum |
| Instrumental | *brahtmu | *brahtmum |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 62, 230
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “(post-)PWGmc *brahtm”