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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/agastrijā

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

Possibly from *ag-ad- ~ *ag-at-, suffixed variant of *agu (“magpie”), +‎ *-þr (agent suffix) +‎ *-jā (agent suffix).

Noun

*agastrijā f[1]

  1. magpie
    Synonyms: *agattjā, *agu

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *agastrijā
Genitive *agastrijōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *agastrijā *agastrijōn
Accusative *agastrijōn *agastrijōn
Genitive *agastrijōn *agastrijōnō
Dative *agastrijōn *agastrijōm, *agastrijum
Instrumental *agastrijōn *agastrijōm, *agastrijum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *aglistrijā[2]

Descendants
  • Old Frisian: *egstre, *ekster; *agster, *akster
  • Old Saxon: agastria, agistra
    • Middle Low German: êgelster, êgester, êgster, êxter, exter, hêgester, hegster, hegister, hegester, heister, hechster
      • Low German: Ääkster, Äkster, Eekster, Ekster, Hääster, Heester, Heister
      • Dutch Low Saxon: ökster
      • Plautdietsch: Heista
      • → German: Heister
      • → Polish: hajstra (“grey heron”)
        • → Old Ruthenian: га́йстеръ (hájster)
          • Belarusian: га́йсцер (hájscjer), га́йсцёр (hájscjor), га́йстр (hájstr) (dialectal)
          • Ukrainian: га́йстер (hájster), га́стір (hástir), а́стер (áster), га́рист (háryst) (dialectal)
      • → Middle Russian: а́истъ (áist), а́гистъ (ágist, “stork”)
  • Old Dutch: *agastra
  • Old High German: agalstra, agastra, egilistra
    • Middle High German: agelster, agelaster, aglaster, alster, elster

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Elster”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 175-176
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ag/kkōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 4
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