Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gatwǭ

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Pre-Germanic *gʰodweh₂, from the same root as *getaną (“to find a way, get”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑt.wɔ̃ː/

Noun

*gatwǭ f

1. street, passage

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *gatwǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*gatwǭ	*gatwōniz
vocative	*gatwǭ	*gatwōniz
accusative	*gatwōnų	*gatwōnunz
genitive	*gatwōniz	*gatwōnǫ̂
dative	*gatwōni	*gatwōmaz
instrumental	*gatwōnē	*gatwōmiz

Related terms

• *gatą

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *gatwā
  • Old Frisian: *jate, *jat
    • West Frisian: jat
  • Old Saxon: *gata
    • Middle Low German: gāte
  • Old Dutch: gata
    • Middle Dutch: gate, gat (“passageway”) (merged with Middle Dutch gat (“gate, opening”))
      • >? Dutch: (Flemish) gat (“bystreet, alley, alleyway”)
  • Old High German: gazza
    • Middle High German: gazze
      • Central Franconian: Jass, Jaas; Gass; Gaß
      • Bavarian: Gåssn
      • German: Gasse
      • Luxembourgish: Gaass
      • Yiddish: גאַס (gas)
      • → Middle Low German: gatze, gadtze, gasse
        • Plautdietsch: Gauss
      • → Middle Dutch: gasse
        • Dutch: gas
      • → Slovene: gȃsa
• Old Norse: gata
  • Icelandic: gata
  • Faroese: gøta
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gate, gote, gotu; (dialectal) gutu, goto, gatu, gato
  • Old Swedish: gata
    • Swedish: gata
    • → Finnish: katu
  • Old Danish: gatæ
    • Danish: gade
      • Norwegian Bokmål: gate
  • → Middle English: gate
    • Scots: gate
    • English: gait, gate
  • → Lithuanian: gatvė
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍅𐍉 (gatwō)