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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/jit

 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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *jut.

Pronoun

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*jit[1]

  1. you two

Inflection

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Proto-West Germanic personal pronouns
singular first person second person reflexive
nominative *ik *þū -
accusative *mik *þik *sik
dative *miʀ *þiʀ
possessive *mīn *þīn *sīn
dual first person second person reflexive
nominative *wit *jit -
accusative *unk *inkw *sik
dative
possessive *unkar *inkwar *sīn
plural first person second person reflexive
nominative *wiʀ *jiʀ -
accusative *uns *iwwi *sik
dative
possessive *unsar *iuwar *sīn

Descendants

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  • Old English: ġit
    • Middle English: ȝit
  • Old Frisian: *it, *jit
    • North Frisian:
      Föhr-Amrum: jat
      Sylt: at
  • Old Saxon: git
  • Old Dutch: *git, *it
  • Old High German: *iz
    • Middle High German: ëz
      • Bavarian: es
      • Yiddish: עץ (ets) (Poylish)

References

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  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*jit”
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