Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/agiþahsijā

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

Alternative forms

  • *awiþahsijā

Etymology

From otherwise unattested *agi (“lizard, snake”), from Proto-Germanic *agiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis, + *þehsan (whence Middle High German dehsan (“to swingle (flax)”), from *þehsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to cut, hew”), +‎ *-jā (agent suffix).[1]

Noun

*agiþahsijā f[2]

  1. lizard

Inflection

ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *agiþahsijā
Genitive *agiþahsijōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *agiþahsijā *agiþahsijōn
Accusative *agiþahsijōn *agiþahsijōn
Genitive *agiþahsijōn *agiþahsijōnō
Dative *agiþahsijōn *agiþahsijōm, *agiþahsijum
Instrumental *agiþahsijōn *agiþahsijōm, *agiþahsijum

Descendants

  • Old English: āþexe
    • Middle English: aske, arske
      • English: ask, askard
      • Scots: ask, esk, awsk
  • Old Saxon: egithassa, ewidehsa
  • Old Dutch: *egithassa
    • Middle Dutch: hāgetisse
  • Old High German: egidehsa, ewidehsa

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*aʒwi-þaxsjōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 4
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Eidechse”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 168
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