Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þikkwī

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þekuz +‎ *-ī (adjective suffix).

Adjective

*þikkwī[1]

  1. thick

Inflection

ja-stem
Singular Masculine
Nominative *þikkwī
Genitive *þikkwijas
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative *þikkwī *þikkwiju *þikkwī
Accusative *þikkwijanā *þikkwijā *þikkwī
Genitive *þikkwijas *þikkwijeʀā *þikkwijas
Dative *þikkwijumē *þikkwijeʀē *þikkwijumē
Instrumental *þikkwiju *þikkwijeʀu *þikkwiju
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative *þikkwijē *þikkwijō *þikkwiju
Accusative *þikkwijā *þikkwijā *þikkwiju
Genitive *þikkwijeʀō *þikkwijeʀō *þikkwijeʀō
Dative *þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum *þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum *þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum
Instrumental *þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum *þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum *þikkwijēm, *þikkwijum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: þicce
    • Middle English: thikke, thicke, thik, thyke, thykke, þikke
      • English: thick
      • Scots: thik, thicke, thick
  • Old Frisian: thikke, *thiukke, *thiuke
    • Saterland Frisian: tjuk
    • West Frisian: tsjok, tsjûk
  • Old Saxon: thikki
  • Old Dutch: *thicki
    • Middle Dutch: dicke
      • Dutch: dik
        • Afrikaans: dik
        • Berbice Creole Dutch: deki
        • Negerhollands: dik
          • Virgin Islands Creole: dik (archaic)
        • Aukan: deki
        • Papiamentu: diki, dek
        • Saramaccan: dégi (via Skepi Creole Dutch)
        • Sranan Tongo: deki
      • Limburgish: diek
      • Zealandic: dik
  • Old High German: dicchi, dichi, dicki, dikki, dihhi, thichi, thihhi, thiki, ticchi

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49:PWGmc *þikkwī