Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gaits

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

Cognate with Proto-Italic *haidos, but cannot be traced back to Proto-Indo-European.[1] According to Bjørn, from the same source as Proto-Semitic *gady-, Proto-Berber *a-ɣăyd, Proto-Nakh *gaaʒaᶰ.[2]

See also *kittīną (“young animal”) and *kidją (“goatling”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɑi̯ts/

Noun

*gaits f[1]

  1. goat

Inflection

Declension of *gaits (consonant stem)
singular plural
nominative *gaits *gaitiz
vocative *gait *gaitiz
accusative *gaitų *gaitunz
genitive *gaitiz *gaitǫ̂
dative *gaiti *gaitumaz
instrumental *gaitē *gaitumiz

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gait-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 163
  2. ^ Bjørn, Rasmus (2017) Foreign elements in the Proto-Indo-European vocabulary. A comparative loanword study‎[2], Master's thesis, University of Copenhagen, pages 56–57
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