Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/luginu

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 *luginō, a late variant of *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), perhaps reinforced by Proto-Germanic *luginaz (“lying, false”).

Noun

*luginu f[1]

  1. lie, falsehood

Inflection

ō-stem
Singular
Nominative *luginu
Genitive *luginā
Singular Plural
Nominative *luginu *luginō
Accusative *luginā *luginā
Genitive *luginā *luginō
Dative *luginē *luginōm, *luginum
Instrumental *luginu *luginōm, *luginum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: lyġen
    • Middle English: liȝe, lighe, leghe, lie (likely having merged with descendants of Old English lyġe)
  • Old Frisian: leine
    • Saterland Frisian: Löägene (possibly from Middle Low German)
    • West Frisian: ljeagen, leagen
  • Old Saxon: lugina
  • Old Dutch: lugina
  • Old High German: lugina

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 286: “PWGmc *luginu”
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.