Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hāt

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

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Sanskrit छद् (chad, “to cover”),^[1] Prasuni vëzëlë.

Noun

*hāt n

garment, dress

Inflection

z-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hāt
Genitive	*hātiʀi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hāt	*hātiʀu
Accusative	*hāt	*hātiʀu
Genitive	*hātiʀi	*hātiʀō
Dative	*hātiʀi	*hātiʀum
Instrumental	*hātiʀi	*hātiʀum

Descendants

Old English: hæteru pl, hætera, hætere, hæteran
- Middle English: hater, hatere, hatir, hatter, hattir, hatyr, heater, hetter
Old High German: *hāz
- Middle High German: hāz m, hæze, hæz n
  - Alemannic German: Häss (archaic)
  - German: Häs (Austria)
→ Proto-Slavic: *šata, *šatъ (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “CHAD”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 554

[1] Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “CHAD”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 554

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