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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁-ow-, from *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”).[1] Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ἱέρᾱξ (hiérāx, “hawk, eagle”) and αἰετός (aietós, “eagle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
*wīwô m[1]
- bird of prey (heron, kite, falcon)
Inflection
Ablauting an-stem.
masculine an-stemDeclension of *wīwô (masculine an-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*wīwô
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*wīwaniz
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vocative
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*wīwô
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*wīwaniz
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accusative
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*wīwanų
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*wīwanunz
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genitive
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*wīwiniz
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*wīwanǫ̂
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dative
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*wīwini
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*wīwammaz
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instrumental
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*wīwinē
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*wīwammiz
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Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*wī̆wan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 590
- ^ Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis), Leiden: Leiden University, page 93