Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gatą

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

Kroonen derives the word from Pre-Germanic *gʰodom, itself from *getaną (“to find a way; to get”), and rejects connections to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed- (“to defecate”) (whence Sanskrit हदति (hádati)).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑ.tɑ̃/

Noun

*gatą n

hole, opening, passage

Inflection

Declension of *gatą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*gatą	*gatō
vocative	*gatą	*gatō
accusative	*gatą	*gatō
genitive	gatas, gatis	*gatǫ̂
dative	*gatai	*gatamaz
instrumental	*gatō	*gatamiz

Related terms

*gatwǭ

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *gat
- Old English: gat, gæt, ġeat
  - Middle English: ȝeat, ȝat, ȝate, ȝet, gat, gate
    - English: gate; yate (dialectal)
      - → Irish: geata
      - → Scottish Gaelic: geata
      - → Dutch: gate
      - → Fiji Hindi: geet
      - → German: Gate
    - Scots: ȝet, ȝett, yet, yett
- Old Frisian: gat, jet
  - Saterland Frisian: Gat
  - West Frisian: gat
- Old Saxon: gat
  - Middle Low German: gat
    - Low German: gat, Gatt
    - → Danish: gat
    - → German: Gatt
    - → Swedish: gatt
- Old Dutch: *gat
  - Middle Dutch: gat
    - Dutch: gat
      - Afrikaans: gat
Old Norse: gat
- Icelandic: gat
- Faroese: gat
- Swedish: gat

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gata-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gata-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

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