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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skuldihaitijō

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

From *skuldi (“tribute, debts, crime”) +‎ *haitijō (“caller, leader”).

Noun

*skuldihaitijō m[1]

  1. one who settles debts, a legal officer

Declension
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *skuldihaitijō
Genitive *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan
Singular Plural
Nominative *skuldihaitijō *skuldihaitijan
Accusative *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijan
Genitive *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijanō
Dative *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijum
Instrumental *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *skuldihaitijā[2]

Descendants
  • Old English: sċyldhǣta, sċuldhēta
  • Old Frisian: skeltāta, skelta, schelta
  • Old Saxon: skuldhētio
    • Middle Low German: schulthete, schultete, schulte
  • Old Dutch: skolthēti
    • Middle Dutch: sculthete, schouthete, schouthet, scoutete, scoute, scout, scouthate, scoutate, schouteet, schoutate, schoutaet, schouthate, schoutete, schoutheit, schouteit schoutet, schoute, schout, scholte, schulte, scholtis, schoutent
  • Old High German: sculdheizo, scultheizzo, schultheizo, sculthaizeo, scultheizo
    • Middle High German: schultheize, schultheiz
  • Lombardic: schuldhais
    • → Medieval Latin: sculdasius, sculdachius
  • → Latin: scultetus
    • → Italian: scoltetto

Further reading
  • Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “skeltata”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 347

References
  1. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235: “PWGmc *skuldihaitijō”
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Schultheiß”, 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 655: “wg. *skuldihait(j)ōn”
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