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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wōstī

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

Alternative forms
  • *wōst, *wōstu

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wōstaz,[1] *wōstuz[2] +‎ *-ī (adjective suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-s-to-s, *h₁weh₂-s-tu-s, from *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon”). Cognate with Latin vāstus (“empty; wasted; vast”), Old Irish fás (“empty, void, uninhabited”).

Adjective

*wōstī[3][4]

  1. uninhabited, desolate, waste

Inflection
ja-stem
Singular Masculine
Nominative *wōstī
Genitive *wōstijas
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative *wōstī *wōstiju *wōstī
Accusative *wōstijanā *wōstijā *wōstī
Genitive *wōstijas *wōstijeʀā *wōstijas
Dative *wōstijumē *wōstijeʀē *wōstijumē
Instrumental *wōstiju *wōstijeʀu *wōstiju
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative *wōstijē *wōstijō *wōstiju
Accusative *wōstijā *wōstijā *wōstiju
Genitive *wōstijeʀō *wōstijeʀō *wōstijeʀō
Dative *wōstijēm, *wōstijum *wōstijēm, *wōstijum *wōstijēm, *wōstijum
Instrumental *wōstijēm, *wōstijum *wōstijēm, *wōstijum *wōstijēm, *wōstijum

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: wēste, wœ̄ste, wōstu
    • Middle English: weste, west; wesste
  • Old Frisian: wēste, wōst
    • Saterland Frisian: wöist
    • West Frisian: woast
  • Old Saxon: wōsti
    • Middle Low German: wôste, wûste
      • German Low German: wööst
  • Old Dutch: wuosti
  • Old High German: wuosti, wuasti
  • → Vulgar Latin: *wasti, *guasti

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*wōstaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wōstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593: “*ueh₂s-tu-”
  3. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 227: “PWGmc (but not Frisian?) *wōstī”
  4. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “wüst”, 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 801
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