Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þikkwī

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þekuz +‎ *-ī (adjective suffix).

Adjective

*þikkwī

1. thick

Inflection

Derived terms

• *þikkwīnassī
• *þikkwīþu

Descendants

• Old English: þicce
  • Middle English: thikke, thicke, thik, thyke, thykke, þikke
    • English: thick
    • Scots: thik, thicke, thick
• Old Frisian: thikke, *thiukke, *thiuke
  • Saterland Frisian: tjuk
  • West Frisian: tsjok, tsjûk
• Old Saxon: thikki
  • Middle Low German: dicke
    • Low German: dick
    • Plautdietsch: dikj
• Old Dutch: *thicki
  • Middle Dutch: dicke
    • Dutch: dik
      • Afrikaans: dik
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: deki
      • Negerhollands: dik
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: dik (archaic)
      • → Aukan: deki
      • → Papiamentu: diki, dek
      • → Saramaccan: dégi (via Skepi Creole Dutch)
      • → Sranan Tongo: deki
    • Limburgish: diek
    • Zealandic: dik
• Old High German: dicchi, dichi, dicki, dikki, dihhi, thichi, thihhi, thiki, ticchi
  • Middle High German: dicke, dic
    • Central Franconian: deck
    • Cimbrian: dikh, dikhe
    • German: dick
    • Hunsrik: dick
    • Luxembourgish: déck
    • Pennsylvania German: dick
    • Yiddish: דיק (dik)

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