Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gaits

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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

Cognate with Proto-Italic *haidos, but cannot be traced back to Proto-Indo-European. According to Bjørn, from the same source as Proto-Semitic *gady-, Proto-Berber *a-ɣăyd, Proto-Nakh *gaazaᶰ.

Pronunciation

Noun

*gaits f

  1. goat

Inflection

consonant stemDeclension of *gaits (consonant stem)
singular plural
nominative *gaits *gaitiz
vocative *gait *gaitiz
accusative *gaitų *gaitunz
genitive *gaitiz *gaitǫ̂
dative *gaiti *gaitumaz
instrumental *gaitē *gaitumiz

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*gait-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 163
  2. ^ Bjørn, Rasmus (2017) Foreign elements in the Proto-Indo-European vocabulary. A comparative loanword study, Master's thesis, University of Copenhagen, page 56–57