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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/āmaitijā
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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
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from unstressed *uʀ- (“off, away”)[1],[2] or perhaps *āmā (“larva”), + *maitan (“to cut off”) + *-jā (agent suffix), if not a substrate borrowing.[3]
Inflection
| ōn-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *āmaitijā | |
| Genitive | *āmaitijōn | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *āmaitijā | *āmaitijōn |
| Accusative | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōn |
| Genitive | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōnō |
| Dative | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum |
| Instrumental | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum |
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Ameise”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 24: “wg. *ǣ-maitjōn”
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*maitanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*amaitjo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
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