Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/taihwǭ

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

From Proto-Indo-European *doyḱ-weh₂-, from *deyḱ- (“to point out”). Cognate with Latin digitus (“toe, finger, digit”),^[1] Latin dīcō (“say, indicate, point out”).

Noun

*taihwǭ f

toe

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *taihwǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*taihwǭ	*taihwōniz
vocative	*taihwǭ	*taihwōniz
accusative	*taihwōnų	*taihwōnunz
genitive	*taihwōniz	*taihwōnǫ̂
dative	*taihwōni	*taihwōmaz
instrumental	*taihwōnē	*taihwōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *taihā
- Old English: tā, tāhe (Mercian)
  - Middle English: ta, to
    - Scots: ta, tae
    - English: toe
- Old Frisian: tāne (originally a plural?)
  - Saterland Frisian: Tone
  - West Frisian: tean
- Old Saxon: *tēha
  - Middle Low German: tē
    - Low German: Tehn, Töhn, Teuhn
- Old Dutch: *tēa
  - Middle Dutch: tee
    - Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular), toon (dialectal, also a plural reanalysed as singular)
      - Afrikaans: toon
- Old High German: zēha
  - Middle High German: zēhe, zē
    - Alemannic German: Zeewe
    - Bavarian: Zächa
    - Central Franconian: Zieh
    - German: Zehe, Zeh
    - Luxembourgish: Zéif
    - Pennsylvania German: Zehe, Zeh
Old Norse: tá
- Icelandic: tá
- Faroese: tá
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tå
- Norwegian Bokmål: tå
- Swedish: tå
- Danish: tå

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*taihwō(n)- ~ *taiwō(n)-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*taihwō(n)- ~ *taiwō(n)-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505

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