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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes- (“extinguish, quell”). Cognate with Sanskrit जासयति (jāsayati, “to exhaust”), Lithuanian gęstù (“to extinguish, to go out”), Irish bás (“death”) and Old Church Slavonic оугасити (ugasiti, “to extinguish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
*kwistiz f[1]
- damage, destruction
Inflection
| i-stemDeclension of *kwistiz (i-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*kwistiz
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*kwistīz
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| vocative
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*kwisti
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*kwistīz
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| accusative
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*kwistį
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*kwistinz
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| genitive
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*kwistīz
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*kwistijǫ̂
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| dative
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*kwistī
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*kwistimaz
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| instrumental
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*kwistī
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*kwistimiz
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kwisti-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320
