Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ētą

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From *etaną (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeː.tɑ̃/

Noun

*ētą n^[1]

the act of eating
food

Inflection

Declension of *ētą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*ētą	*ētō
vocative	*ētą	*ētō
accusative	*ētą	*ētō
genitive	ētas, ētis	*ētǫ̂
dative	*ētai	*ētamaz
instrumental	*ētō	*ētamiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *āt
- Old English: ǣt
  - Middle English: æte, ate, ete; ates, etes (plural)
    - English: eat; eats (plural)
- Old Frisian: ēt
  - North Frisian: ad, it
- Old Saxon: āt
  - Middle Low German: ât
- Old Dutch: āt
  - Middle Dutch: aet
    - Dutch: aat
- Old High German: āȥ
  - Middle High German: āȥ
    - German: Aas (merged with *ēsą)
Old Norse: át
- Icelandic: át
- Norwegian Nynorsk: åt
- Norwegian Bokmål: åt

References

^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ētan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88

[HGE-1] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ētan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88

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