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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hanhasinwō

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms
  • *hanhasinawō[1], *hanhsinwō[2]

Etymology

From *hanhaz (“heel”) +‎ *senawō (“tendon”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈxɑ̃ː.xɑ.ˌsin.wɔː/

Noun

*hanhasinwō f[1][2]

  1. Achilles tendon, hamstring

Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *hanhasinwō (ō-stem)
singular plural
nominative *hanhasinwō *hanhasinwôz
vocative *hanhasinwō *hanhasinwôz
accusative *hanhasinwǭ *hanhasinwōz
genitive *hanhasinwōz *hanhasinwǫ̂
dative *hanhasinwōi *hanhasinwōmaz
instrumental *hanhasinwō *hanhasinwōmiz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *hą̄hasinu
    • Old English: hōhsinu, hōhsino
      • Middle English: hokschyne, *hoxene (often remodelled after schyne "shin")
        • English: huxen, huckson, huxon; huckshin, hucksheen (dialectal, obsolete)
    • Old Frisian: hōxene, hōxne
    • Old Dutch: *hāhsena, *hāssena
      • Middle Dutch: hâesen, hâesene
    • Old High German: hāhsina, hāhsna
      • Middle High German: hahsen, hæhsen, hehsen pl
        • Bavarian: Haxn
        • Alemannic German:
          Swabian: Haxa
        • German: Hachse, Hechse, Haxe
        • Luxembourgish: Héiss
        • Rhine Franconian:
          Palatine German: Hees, Hess
          Pennsylvania German: Heese
        • Vilamovian: haoks
  • Old Norse: hásin
    • Icelandic: hásin

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*xanxa-sin(a)wō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 160
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Hachse”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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