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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.
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz.
Noun
*auhaim m[1]
- maternal uncle
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*auhaim
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| Genitive
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*auhaimas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*auhaim
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*auhaimō, *auhaimōs
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| Accusative
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*auhaim
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*auhaimā
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| Genitive
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*auhaimas
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*auhaimō
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| Dative
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*auhaimē
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*auhaimum
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| Instrumental
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*auhaimu
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*auhaimum
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Descendants
- Old English: ēam
- Middle English: em, eam, eem, eeme, eme, heme, nem, æem, æm, eom, heam, yem (Early Middle English), eame, eyme (Late Middle English)
- Old Frisian: ām, āme, ēm
- Old Saxon: *ōhēm
- Middle Low German: ōhem, ōm
- Low German: Ohm
- Münsterländisch: Low German: Öhms (plural)
- Plautdietsch: Oom
- Old Dutch: *ōm
- Middle Dutch: ôom
- Dutch: oom, ome, noom
- Afrikaans: oom
- Berbice Creole Dutch: om
- Negerhollands: noom, nom, noem
- → Virgin Islands Creole: nom, noom (dated)
- → Ambonese Malay: om
- → Indonesian: om
- → Papiamentu: mò, òn, òmpi (from the diminutive), mo (Aruba), òm (Aruba), omo (Aruba), oom
- → Sranan Tongo: omu
- → West Frisian: omme, omke
- Limburgish: ome
- Old High German: ōheim
- Middle High German: ōheim; (Central German) ōhem, ōem
- German: Oheim, Ohm (partly from Low German), Oehm
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*auhaim”