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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwistiz

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes- (“extinguish, quell”). Cognate with Sanskrit जासयति (jāsayati, “to exhaust”), Lithuanian gęstù (“to extinguish, to go out”), Irish bás (“death”) and Old Church Slavonic оугасити (ugasiti, “to extinguish”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʷis.tiz/

Noun

*kwistiz f[1]

  1. damage, destruction

Inflection
i-stemDeclension of *kwistiz (i-stem)
singular plural
nominative *kwistiz *kwistīz
vocative *kwisti *kwistīz
accusative *kwistį *kwistinz
genitive *kwistīz *kwistijǫ̂
dative *kwistī *kwistimaz
instrumental *kwistī *kwistimiz

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *kwisti
    • Old Saxon: *quist
    • Old Dutch: *quist
    • Old High German: kwist, quist
  • Gothic: *𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*qists)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kwisti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320
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