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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From earlier *wetmō through Bahder's law, from Proto-Germanic *wetmô.[1]
Noun
*weþmō m[2]
- dowry, bride price
Inflection
| Masculine an-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*weþmō
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| Genitive
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*witini, *wetan
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*weþmō
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*weþman
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| Accusative
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*weþman
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*weþman
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| Genitive
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*witini, *wetan
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*wetanō
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| Dative
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*witini, *wetan
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*wetum
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| Instrumental
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*witini, *wetan
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*wetum
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Alternative reconstructions
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wetman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 583
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*weþman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 583
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Wittum”, 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 796: “wg. *wetmōn”
- ^ Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “withume”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 453: “PWGmc. *wetmōn”
