Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wihtą

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

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic вещь (veštĭ), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“thing”).

However, Kroonen also compares *weganą (“to carry, to move”) (cognate with Proto-Celtic *wextā (“time, course, run”)).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwix.tɑ̃/

Noun

*wihtą n

thing, creature

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *wihtą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*wihtą	*wihtō
vocative	*wihtą	*wihtō
accusative	*wihtą	*wihtō
genitive	wihtas, wihtis	*wihtǫ̂
dative	*wihtai	*wihtamaz
instrumental	*wihtō	*wihtamiz

Related terms

*wihtiz

Descendants

Old English: wiht; nāwiht, nōwiht
- Middle English: wihht, wiȝt, wight
  - English: wight
  - Scots: wicht, wycht
Old Dutch: *wiht
- Middle Dutch: wicht, wecht
  - Dutch: wicht, niet (< nie + wicht), niets (< nie + wicht + s), iets (< ie + wicht + s).
    - Afrikaans: wig
Old High German: wiht
- Middle High German: wiht
  - German: Wicht
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄 (waiht), ni ... waiht (the neuter form waiht as well as the feminine form waihts occurs in Gothic, according to the book Glossarium der Gotischen Sprache, thus the form *wihtiz also existed in Proto-Germanic).

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) “wehti”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, p. 577-578

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “wehti”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, p. 577-578