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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wīwô

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 Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁-ow-, from *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”).[1] Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ἱέρᾱξ (hiérāx, “hawk, eagle”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwiː.wɔːː/

Noun

*wīwô m [1]

  1. a predatory bird: heron, kite, falcon

Inflection

Ablauting an-stem.

masculine an-stemDeclension of *wīwô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *wīwô *wīwaniz
vocative *wīwô *wīwaniz
accusative *wīwanų *wiununz
genitive *wiunaz *wiunǫ̂
dative *wiwini *wiwummiz
instrumental *wiunē *wiunamiz

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: *wīwo
    • Middle Low German: wîe, wîhe
      • Low German: Wieh
  • Old Dutch: *wīwo, *wiuwo, weio
  • Old High German: wīwo, wīgo, wīo
  • Old Norse: *vé (possibly unrelated[2])
    • ⇒ Old Norse: langvé
      • Icelandic: langvía, langvígi
      • Faroese: lomvigi
      • Norwegian: langve, lomve, lomvie
      • Swedish: lomvia
      • Danish: lomvie

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*wīwan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 590}
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2009), “ī~i alternations”, in Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems‎, Leiden: Leiden University, page 93
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