Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hagatusi

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 *hagatusjō.

Noun

*hagatusi f[1]

witch

Inflection

ī/jō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hagatusi
Genitive	*hagatussjā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hagatusi	*hagatussjō
Accusative	*hagatussjā	*hagatussjā
Genitive	*hagatussjā	*hagatussjō
Dative	*hagatussjē	hagatussjōm, hagatussjum
Instrumental	*hagatussju	hagatussjōm, hagatussjum

Descendants

Old English: hægtesse, hægtes, hegtes
- Middle English: hagge, hegge
  - English: hag
Old Frisian: *hegtesse, *hexe
- Saterland Frisian: Häkse
- West Frisian: hekse
Old Saxon: *hagatusia
- Middle Low German: *hagetusse
  - Plautdietsch: Hakjs
Old Dutch: *hagatissa
- Middle Dutch: hagetisse
  - Dutch: hagedis (dialectal)
Old High German: hagazussa, hagzissa, hāzus
- Middle High German: hecse
  - German: Hexe
    - → Polish: heks
    - → Danish: heks
    - → Dutch: heks
      - Afrikaans: heks
      - → Papiamentu: hèks
    - → Swedish: häxa
    - →? Norwegian Nynorsk: heks
  - Luxembourgish: Hex

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 192: “PWGmc *hagatusi, *hagatusʲsʲā-”

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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 192: “PWGmc *hagatusi, *hagatusʲsʲā-”