Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂.
Pronunciation
Noun
*ahwō f[1]
- water
- stream, river
Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *ahwō (ō-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*ahwō
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*ahwôz
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vocative
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*ahwō
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*ahwôz
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accusative
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*ahwǭ
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*ahwōz
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genitive
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*ahwōz
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*ahwǫ̂
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dative
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*ahwōi
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*ahwōmaz
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instrumental
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*ahwō
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*ahwōmiz
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Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *ahu
- Old English: ēa, ǣ
- Old Frisian: ā, ē
- North Frisian: ia
- Saterland Frisian: Äi
- West Frisian: ie
- Old Saxon: aha, ā
- Middle Low German: ahe, â
- >? German Low German: Ehe (archaic)
- Old Dutch: ā
- Old High German: aha
- Middle High German: ahe
- German: Ach, Ache (obsolete or dialectal, chiefly in toponyms)
- Old Norse: á, ǫ́
- Icelandic: á
- Faroese: á
- Norwegian Nynorsk: å
- Old Swedish: ā
- Old Danish: ā
- → Middle English: aa
- Gothic: 𐌰𐍈𐌰 (aƕa)
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ahwō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 7