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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ruskijā

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

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Latin rūscus, *rīscus, rūscum (“butcher's broom”) +‎ *-jā (agent suffix)[1] in connection to its use in broom making, or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(H)resg- (“to weave”)[2] for its use in basket making, cognate with Lithuanian regzti (“to knit, weave”), Latin restis (“cord, rope”).

Noun

*ruskijā f

  1. rush (plant)
    Synonyms: *beusu, *binut, *riskijā, *skilp

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *ruskijā
Genitive *ruskijōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *ruskijā *ruskijōn
Accusative *ruskijōn *ruskijōn
Genitive *ruskijōn *ruskijōnō
Dative *ruskijōn *ruskijōm, *ruskijum
Instrumental *ruskijōn *ruskijōm, *ruskijum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *rūskijā

Descendants

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Rausch²”, 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 585
  2. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ruskjō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 309
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