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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wīk
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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
Borrowed from Latin vīcus (“village”), displacing native *wīhs (“village, settlement”), from Proto-Germanic *wīhsą, both deriving from the same Indo-European root.
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *wīk | |
| Genitive | *wīkas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *wīk | *wīkō, *wīkōs |
| Accusative | *wīk | *wīkā |
| Genitive | *wīkas | *wīkō |
| Dative | *wīkē | *wīkum |
| Instrumental | *wīku | *wīkum |
| Neuter a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *wīk | |
| Genitive | *wīkas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *wīk | *wīku |
| Accusative | *wīk | *wīku |
| Genitive | *wīkas | *wīkō |
| Dative | *wīkē | *wīkum |
| Instrumental | *wīku | *wīkum |
Descendants
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 210: “PWGmc *wīk”
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