Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skuldihaitijō

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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

From *skuldi (tribute, debts, crime) +‎ *haitijō (caller, leader).

Noun

*skuldihaitijō m[1]

  1. one who settles debts, a legal officer

Declension

Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *skuldihaitijō
Genitive *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan
Singular Plural
Nominative *skuldihaitijō *skuldihaitijan
Accusative *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijan
Genitive *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijanō
Dative *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijum
Instrumental *skuldihaitijini, *skuldihaitijan *skuldihaitijum

Alternative reconstructions

  • *skuldihaitijā[2]

Descendants

Further reading

  • Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “skeltata”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 347

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235:PWGmc *skuldihaitijō
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Schultheiß”, 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 655:wg. *skuldihait(j)ōn