Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mawi
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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; presumably from Proto-Germanic *mawaz, *mawiz (“clean”) + *-ī (adjective suffix), possibly related to Proto-Slavic *mỳti (“to wash”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *myewh₁- (“to move about”).[1]
Adjective
*mawi
Inflection
| ja-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | ||
| Nominative | *mawi | ||
| Genitive | *mauwjas | ||
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *mawi | *mauwju | *mawi |
| Accusative | *mauwjanā | *mauwjā | *mawi |
| Genitive | *mauwjas | *mauwjeʀā | *mauwjas |
| Dative | *mauwjumē | *mauwjeʀē | *mauwjumē |
| Instrumental | *mauwju | *mauwjeʀu | *mauwju |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *mauwjē | *mauwjō | *mauwju |
| Accusative | *mauwjā | *mauwjā | *mauwju |
| Genitive | *mauwjeʀō | *mauwjeʀō | *mauwjeʀō |
| Dative | *mauwjēm, *mauwjum | *mauwjēm, *mauwjum | *mauwjēm, *mauwjum |
| Instrumental | *mauwjēm, *mauwjum | *mauwjēm, *mauwjum | *mauwjēm, *mauwjum |
Descendants
- Old Saxon: *mōi
- Old Dutch: *mōi
- Middle Dutch: môi, môie
- Dutch: mooi
- Afrikaans: mooi
- Berbice Creole Dutch: moi
- Jersey Dutch: mûi
- Negerhollands: mooi, mooj, mui
- Skepi Creole Dutch: moi, moye
- → Aukan: moi
- → Caribbean Hindustani: moi
- → Kwinti: moi
- → North Frisian: mooi
- → Saterland Frisian: mooi
- → Scots: moy
- → Saramaccan: moi
- → Sranan Tongo: moi
- → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: moime
- → West Frisian: moai
- Dutch: mooi
- ⇒ Old Dutch: Moye (surname)
- Middle Dutch: môi, môie
Further reading
- Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “mooi”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- Guus Kroonen (2013) “*mauja-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359
References
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1. meu-, meū̯ə-: mū̆-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 741