gheie

Alemannic German

Etymology

Verbal derivative of Middle High German heie (“hammer, club”), from Old High German heia, from Proto-Germanic *hajaną (“to pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kh₂ey- (“to hew”), possibly reanalyzed from *sekh₂- (“to cut”).[1] Compare Luxembourgish Heel (“hoe”).

Pronunciation

Verb

gheie (third-person singular simple present gheit, past participle gheit, past subjunctive gheiti, auxiliary sii)

  1. to fall
  2. to become

Derived terms
  • abegheie
  • drigheie
  • umgheie
  • usgheie

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hajan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203
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