Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kabisi

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 *kabisjō.

Noun

*kabisi f[1]

  1. concubine

Inflection

ī/jō-stem
Singular
Nominative *kabisi
Genitive *kabissjā
Singular Plural
Nominative *kabisi *kabissjō
Accusative *kabissjā *kabissjā
Genitive *kabissjā *kabissjō
Dative *kabissjē *kabissjōm, *kabissjum
Instrumental *kabissju *kabissjōm, *kabissjum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: ċiefes, ċyfys, ċifes, ċyfes
  • Old Saxon: kevis
    • Middle Low German: kēvis, kēves
      • Low German: Keves
  • Old Dutch: *kevesa
    • Middle Dutch: kēefse, kēvisse, kiese
      • Dutch: kevis (“adultery”)
  • Old High German: kebis, chebis, kebisa, chebisa
    • Middle High German: kebes, kebese, kebse
      • → German: Kebse (learned, 18th c.)
    • ⇒ Old High German: kebiswīb
      • Middle High German: kebeswīp

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 216: “PWGmc *kabisi”
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.