Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wit

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 *wet.

Pronoun

*wit[1]

  1. we two

Inflection

Proto-West Germanic personal pronouns
singular first person second person reflexive
nominative *ik *þū -
accusative *mik *þik *sik
dative *miʀ *þiʀ
possessive *mīn *þīn *sīn
dual first person second person reflexive
nominative *wit *jit -
accusative *unk *inkw *sik
dative
possessive *unkar *inkwar *sīn
plural first person second person reflexive
nominative *wiʀ *jiʀ -
accusative *uns *iwwi *sik
dative
possessive *unsar *iuwar *sīn

Descendants

  • Old English: wit
    • Middle English: wit
  • Old Frisian: *wit
    • North Frisian: wat
  • Old Saxon: wit

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*wit”
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