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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kuffju
Proto-West Germanic
Alternative forms
- *kuffjā[1]
Etymology
Unknown;[2] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewp-, whence Proto-Germanic *skuftą (“tuft, hair”). Perhaps also related to Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.[3][4]
Declension
ō-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *kuffju | |
Genitive | *kuffjā | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *kuffju | *kuffjō |
Accusative | *kuffjā | *kuffjā |
Genitive | *kuffjā | *kuffjō |
Dative | *kuffjē | *kuffjōm, *kuffjum |
Instrumental | *kuffju | *kuffjōm, *kuffjum |
Descendants
Further reading
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gēu-, gəu-, gū-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cofia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20: Autres langues, page 836: “westgerm. kufja, kuffja”
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kuppe”, 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 420: “Dringt erst im 18. Jh. aus dem Niederdeutschen in die Schriftsprache; hochdeutsche Entsprechungen sind ahd. kupfa ‘Kopfbedeckung’, mhd. kupfe, gupfe. Die Wörter sind sicher entlehnt;”
- Fick, August (1890–1909) Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), 4th edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 470
- Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 285
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