Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aidiją

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This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (to go). Kroonen suggests nominalization of a possible gerundive *aidijaz (passable), from a Pre-Germanic *h₁oytyos.

Pronunciation

Noun

*aidiją n

  1. (North Germanic) isthmus, strait

Inflection

neuter ja-stemDeclension of *aidiją (neuter ja-stem)
singular plural
nominative *aidiją *aidijō
vocative *aidiją *aidijō
accusative *aidiją *aidijō
genitive *aidijas, *aidīs *aidijǫ̂
dative *aidijai *aidijamaz
instrumental *aidijō *aidijamiz

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Old Norse: eið, eiði
    • Icelandic: eið, eiði
    • Faroese: eið, eiði
    • Norn: ed
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: eid, eide
    • Norwegian Bokmål: eid
    • Old Swedish: ēþ
      • Swedish: ed
    • English: eid, (dialectal)
  • Proto-Samic: *ājδē

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aidja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 8