Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wit

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wet.

Pronoun

*wit [1]

we two

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: wit
- Middle English: wit
Old Frisian: wit
- North Frisian: wat
Old Saxon: wit
Old Dutch: *wit
- Limburgish: weet (archaic)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*wit”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*wit”