Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwaitijaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *hwītaz (“white”).
Pronunciation
Noun
*hwaitijaz m
Inflection
masculine ja-stemDeclension of *hwaitijaz (masculine ja-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *hwaitijaz | *hwaitijōz, *hwaitijōs | |
vocative | *hwaitī | *hwaitijōz, *hwaitijōs | |
accusative | *hwaitiją | *hwaitijanz | |
genitive | *hwaitijas, *hwaitīs | *hwaitijǫ̂ | |
dative | *hwaitijai | *hwaitijamaz | |
instrumental | *hwaitijō | *hwaitijamiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hwaitī
- Old Norse: hveiti
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 (ƕaiteis)
- → Lithuanian: kvietys, kvieši (“wheat”) (likely borrowed from Old Norse[3] or Gothic[4])
References
- ^ “quhete” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ “white” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch[1], volumes I–II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- ^ Balaišis, Vytautas (1994) “Das Problem der gotischen Diphthonge ai, au und die litauischen Lehnwörter kvietỹs „Weizen“, kliẽpas „Laibbrot“”, in Baltistica[2] (in German), volume 4, Vilnius: Vilnius University,