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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.
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *gʰodweh₂, from the same root as *getaną (“to find a way, get”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
*gatwǭ f[1]
- street, passage
Inflection
Declension of *gatwǭ (ōn-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*gatwǭ
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*gatwōniz
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| vocative
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*gatwǭ
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*gatwōniz
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| accusative
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*gatwōnų
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*gatwōnunz
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| genitive
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*gatwōniz
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*gatwōnǫ̂
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| dative
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*gatwōni
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*gatwōmaz
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| instrumental
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*gatwōnē
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*gatwōmiz
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Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *gatwā
- Old Frisian: *jate, *jat
- Old Saxon: *gata
- Old Dutch: gata
- Middle Dutch: gate, gat (“passageway”) (merged with Middle Dutch gat (“gate, opening”))
- >? Dutch: (Flemish) gat (“bystreet, alley, alleyway”)
- Old High German: gazza
- Middle High German: gazze
- Central Franconian: Jass, Jaas (western Ripuarian), Gass (eastern Moselle Franconian), Gaß (western Moselle Franconian)
- Bavarian: Gåssn
- German: Gasse
- Luxembourgish: Gaass
- Yiddish: גאַס (gas)
- → Middle Low German: gatze, gadtze, gasse
- → Middle Dutch: gasse
- → Slovene: gȃsa
- Old Norse: gata
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍅𐍉 (gatwō)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gatwōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170