Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aihtiz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *aiganą +‎ *-þiz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯x.tiz/

Noun

*aihtiz f [1]

possessions, property

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *aihtiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*aihtiz	*aihtīz
vocative	*aihti	*aihtīz
accusative	*aihtį	*aihtinz
genitive	*aihtīz	*aihtijǫ̂
dative	*aihtī	*aihtimaz
instrumental	*aihtī	*aihtimiz

Descendants

Old English: ǣht
- Middle English: aught, ought
  - English: aught, ought
  - Scots: aucht
Old Saxon: ēht
- ⇒ Old Saxon: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
  - Middle Low German: vracht
    - German Low German: fracht
    - → Middle Dutch: vracht
      - Dutch: vracht
        Afrikaans: vrag
    - → Danish: fragt
    - → English: freight, fraught (possibly via Middle Dutch)
    - → German: Fracht
    - → Gutnish: frakt
    - → Norwegian: frakt (possibly via Middle Dutch)
    - → Swedish: frakt
Old Dutch: *ēht
- ⇒ Old Dutch: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
  - Middle Dutch: vrecht
    - → Old French: fret
      - French: fret
        → Portuguese: frete
        → Spanish: flete
      - → Galician: frete
Old High German: ēht
Old Norse: átt, ætt
- Icelandic: átt, ætt
- Faroese: ætt
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ætt
- Old Swedish: æt
  - Swedish: ätt
- Danish: æt
- Old Gutnish: ǣt
- Westrobothnian: ett
Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (aihts)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aihti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 9

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aihti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 9