Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/āmaitijā

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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

Unknown. Possibly from unstressed *uʀ- (off, away)[1],[2] or perhaps *āmā (larva), + *maitan (to cut off) +‎ *-jā (agent suffix), if not a substrate borrowing.[3]

Noun

*āmaitijā f[1]

  1. ant

Inflection

ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *āmaitijā
Genitive *āmaitijōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *āmaitijā *āmaitijōn
Accusative *āmaitijōn *āmaitijōn
Genitive *āmaitijōn *āmaitijōnō
Dative *āmaitijōn *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum
Instrumental *āmaitijōn *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Ameise”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 24:wg. *ǣ-maitjōn
  2. ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*maitanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
  3. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*amaitjo-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24