Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/haiþī

From Proto-Indo-European *kay-t-os (“forest, wasteland, pasture”), from *kayt- (“forest, pasture”), with the most certain cognates being in Celtic languages (with Kroonen speculating a borrowing from one branch into the other). Cognate with Proto-Brythonic *koɨd (“forest”) (Old Welsh coit);^[1] outside of Celtic, compare Latin bū-cētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”), Albanian kath (“type of wheat”), kasht (“straw”). Whether *kayt- is related to *keyt- (“to shine”) is unclear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑi̯.θiː/

*haiþī f

1. heath, wasteland

• *haiþinaz

• Proto-West Germanic: *haiþi
  • Old English: hǣþ, *hāþ, hēþ
    • Middle English: heeth, heth, hethe, hath, hathe, hoth, hothe
      • English: heath, heather
      • Scots: haithe (in compounds only)
  • Old Frisian: *hēthe
    • North Frisian: hiiđ
    • Saterland Frisian: Heede
    • West Frisian: heide
  • Old Saxon: *hētha, *heitha
    • Middle Low German: heide
      • Low German: Heide
        • German Low German: Heide, Heid, Hede, Heed, Hiede, Hied
        • Westphalian:

          Münsterländer: Häide m, Haide f (Westmünsterländisch)

          East Westphalian: Håi'n (Ravensberger)

  • Old Dutch: *hētha, *heitha
    • Middle Dutch: heide
      • Dutch: heide, hei
        • Afrikaans: heide
  • Old High German: heid, heida
    • Middle High German: heide
      • German: Heide
      • Luxembourgish: Heed
• Old Norse: heiðr f
  • Icelandic: heiður, heiði
  • Faroese: heiði
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hei, heid
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hei
  • Old Swedish: hēþ
    • Swedish: hed
  • Old Danish: heth
    • Danish: hede
      • Norwegian Bokmål: hede
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: hede
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹 (haiþi)