Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/klaiw
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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 an original z-stem[1] *klaiw ~ *klaiwiʀi, perhaps of substrate origin.[2]
De Vaan, Foerste, and others connect this to *klaij (“clay”), German Kleie and *klīban (“to stick to”). Their common Germanic root would be *klei- ~ *klai-[3] (from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”) for at least "clay" and Kleie, according to Kroonen).
Noun
*klaiw n
Inflection
| z-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *klaiw | |
| Genitive | *klaiwiʀi | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *klaiw | *klaiwiʀu |
| Accusative | *klaiw | *klaiwiʀu |
| Genitive | *klaiwiʀi | *klaiwiʀō |
| Dative | *klaiwiʀi | *klaiwiʀum |
| Instrumental | *klaiwiʀi | *klaiwiʀum |
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Vladimir Orel (2003) “*klaiwaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 215
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*klaiwiz-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 291-292
- ^ Schrijver, Peter (1997) “Animal, vegetable and mineral: some Western European substratum words”, in Lubotsky, A., editor, Sound Law and Analogy, Amsterdam/Atlanta, pages 293–316
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2017) The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200 (NOWELE Supplement Series), volume 30, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 483-487