Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dīk
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *dīkaz.
Noun
[edit]*dīk m[1]
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *dīk | |
| Genitive | *dīkas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *dīk | *dīkō, *dīkōs |
| Accusative | *dīk | *dīkā |
| Genitive | *dīkas | *dīkō |
| Dative | *dīkē | *dīkum |
| Instrumental | *dīku | *dīkum |
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: dīċ[2]
- >? Old English: dīc[3]
- Old Frisian: dīk
- Old Saxon: dīk (“levee, pond”)
- Old Dutch: dīc (“levee, wall”)[4]
- Old High German: tīh (“dam”)
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 210: “PWGmc (?) *dīk”
- ^ “dyke, noun.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, April 2024.
- ^ “ditch, noun.”, in OED Online
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “dijk”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “25”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 911: “Teich”
- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Teich”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 2
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “25”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 186: “Deich”
