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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
1) Nursery word; compare Basque aita (father).
2) From Proto-Indo-European. Compare Proto-Indo-Aryan *āyiH (“mother”), whence Marathi आई (āī, “mother”), Assamese আই (ai, “mother”)
Noun
*aiþį̄ f
- mother
- Synonyms: *ammǭ, *mōdēr, *mōmǭ
Inflection
Declension of *aiþį̄ (īn-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*aiþį̄
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*aiþīniz
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| vocative
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*aiþį̄
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*aiþīniz
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| accusative
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*aiþīnų
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*aiþīnunz
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| genitive
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*aiþīniz
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*aiþīnǫ̂
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| dative
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*aiþīni
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*aiþīmaz
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| instrumental
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*aiþīnē
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*aiþīmiz
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Coordinate terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aiþīn- ~ *aiþōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 15
