Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/biliþī

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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

Possibly from *biliþu (“equalness, likeness”) +‎ *-ī (abstract noun suffix), from *bil (“equal, alike”) +‎ *-iþu (“-ness, -th”), from Proto-Germanic *bilaz, *biliz.[1]

Noun

*biliþī n

  1. likeness, image
  2. example

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
Singular
Nominative *biliþī
Genitive *biliþijas
Singular Plural
Nominative *biliþī *biliþiju
Accusative *biliþī *biliþiju
Genitive *biliþijas *biliþijō
Dative *biliþijē *biliþijum
Instrumental *biliþiju *biliþijum

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*bila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 64
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