Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-ini

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 *-inī.

Suffix

*-ini f

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Forms nouns indicating a female individual.

Inflection

Stem *-unnjō-.

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Derived terms

Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-ini

Descendants

Old English: -en
- Middle English: -en
  - English: -en (fossilised, non-productive)
Old Frisian:
- West Frisian: -inne
- North Frisian: -in
Old Saxon: -ina, -unnia
- Middle Low German: -inne, -in
  - Low German: -in
  - → Old Norse: -inna
    - Norwegian:
      - Norwegian Bokmål: -inne
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: -inne
    - Old Danish: -inne
      - Danish: -inde
    - Old Swedish: -inna
      - Swedish: -inna
      - → Finnish: -inna
Old Dutch: -inna
- Middle Dutch: -inne
  - Dutch: -in
    - Afrikaans: -in
  - Limburgish: -in
Old High German: -in, -inna
- Middle High German: -īn, -inne
  - German: -in
  - Alemannic German: -in

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