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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/tibā

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 Proto-Germanic *tibǭ. A geminate byform *tibbǭ > *tibbā gave German dialectal Zippe, Zibbe (“ewe; doe (hare, rabbit)”), Icelandic tebba (“vixen”), and possibly English tib (“working-class woman”).[1]

Noun

*tibā f

  1. bitch, female dog

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *tibā
Genitive *tibōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *tibā *tibōn
Accusative *tibōn *tibōn
Genitive *tibōn *tibōnō
Dative *tibōn *tibōm, *tibum
Instrumental *tibōn *tibōm, *tibum

Descendants
  • Old English: tife
  • Old Frisian: *tive, *teve
  • Old Saxon: *tiva
    • Middle Low German: teve
      • German Low German: Teve, Teev
      • → Old Norse: tefja
        • Danish: tæve
        • Swedish: täva; (täfsa (dialectal))
  • Old Dutch: *tiva
  • Old High German: *zippa, zibba
    • Middle High German: *zippe, zibbe

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “tib(b)ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515
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