Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þegn
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *þegnaz.
Noun
[edit]*þegn m[1]
Inflection
[edit]Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *þegn | |
Genitive | *þegnas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *þegn | *þegnō, *þegnōs |
Accusative | *þegn | *þegnā |
Genitive | *þegnas | *þegnō |
Dative | *þegnē | *þegnum |
Instrumental | *þegnu | *þegnum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: þeġn, þægn
- Middle English: theyn, dain, thain, thayn, thein, þen, þein, þeyn; ðæin, þægen, þægn, þegen, þegn, þeȝn, þeign (Early Middle English)
- → Medieval Latin: thainus
- Old Saxon: thegan
- Old Dutch: *thegen (in derivatives and compounds)
- Middle Dutch: dēgen
- Dutch: degen
- ⇒ Old Dutch: thegenlīko (adverb)
- Middle Dutch: dēgen
- Old High German: degan
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 330: “PWGmc *þegn”