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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
- goat
Inflection
consonant stemDeclension of *gaits (consonant stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*gaits
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*gaitiz
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vocative
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*gait
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*gaitiz
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accusative
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*gaitų
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*gaitunz
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genitive
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*gaitiz
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*gaitǫ̂
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dative
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*gaiti
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*gaitumaz
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instrumental
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*gaitē
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*gaitumiz
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ↑ 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
- ^ Bjørn, Rasmus (2017) Foreign elements in the Proto-Indo-European vocabulary. A comparative loanword study, Master's thesis, University of Copenhagen, page 56–57