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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unknown; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *aiþį̄ (“mother”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-tmó-s, from *h₂ey- (“to give, attribute”).[1][2]
Noun
*aiþum m[1][3][2]
- son-in-law
- Synonym: *swāgur
Inflection
Masculine a-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*aiþum
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Genitive
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*aiþumas
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*aiþum
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*aiþumō, *aiþumōs
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Accusative
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*aiþum
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*aiþumā
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Genitive
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*aiþumas
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*aiþumō
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Dative
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*aiþumē
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*aiþumum
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Instrumental
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*aiþumu
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*aiþumum
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Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Eidam”, 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 168: “wg. *aiþuma-”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “athom”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 28-29: “PGMC: *aiþum- [PWGmc.]”
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*aiþum”
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aiþma-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 15