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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wīgą.
Noun
*wīg m[1]
- battle
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*wīg
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| Genitive
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*wīgas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*wīg
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*wīgō, *wīgōs
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| Accusative
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*wīg
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*wīgā
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| Genitive
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*wīgas
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*wīgō
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| Dative
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*wīgē
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*wīgum
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| Instrumental
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*wīgu
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*wīgum
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 213: “PWGmc *wīg”
