Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mihs

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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

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Noun

*mihs n[1]

  1. (North Sea Germanic) dung
    Synonyms: *dungu, *tord

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
Singular
Nominative *mihs
Genitive *mihsas
Singular Plural
Nominative *mihs *mihsu
Accusative *mihs *mihsu
Genitive *mihsas *mihsō
Dative *mihsē *mihsum
Instrumental *mihsu *mihsum

Descendants

  • Old English: meox, miox
  • >? Old English: mes f (perhaps conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mihstu)
  • Old Frisian: *miuks
  • Old Saxon: mehs

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312:PWGmc *mihs