Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mawi

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

Unknown; presumably from Proto-Germanic *mawaz, *mawiz (“clean”) +‎ *-ī (adjective suffix), possibly related to Proto-Slavic *mỳti (“to wash”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *myewh₁- (“to move about”).[1]

Adjective

*mawi

  1. pretty

Inflection

ja-stem
Singular Masculine
Nominative *mawi
Genitive *mauwjas
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative *mawi *mauwju *mawi
Accusative *mauwjanā *mauwjā *mawi
Genitive *mauwjas *mauwjeʀā *mauwjas
Dative *mauwjumē *mauwjeʀē *mauwjumē
Instrumental *mauwju *mauwjeʀu *mauwju
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative *mauwjē *mauwjō *mauwju
Accusative *mauwjā *mauwjā *mauwju
Genitive *mauwjeʀō *mauwjeʀō *mauwjeʀō
Dative *mauwjēm, *mauwjum *mauwjēm, *mauwjum *mauwjēm, *mauwjum
Instrumental *mauwjēm, *mauwjum *mauwjēm, *mauwjum *mauwjēm, *mauwjum

Descendants

  • Old Saxon: *mōi
    • Middle Low German: môie
      • Dutch Low Saxon:
        Twents: mooi
      • German Low German:
        Bentheimisch, Westmünsterländisch: mooi
        Westmünsterländisch: mööi
      • → Danish: moj
      • → Norwegian: møy
      • → Swedish: moj
  • Old Dutch: *mōi
    • Middle Dutch: môi, môie
      • Dutch: mooi
        • Afrikaans: mooi
        • Berbice Creole Dutch: moi
        • Jersey Dutch: mûi
        • Negerhollands: mooi, mooj, mui
        • Skepi Creole Dutch: moi, moye
        • → Aukan: moi
        • → Caribbean Hindustani: moi
        • → Kwinti: moi
        • → North Frisian: mooi
        • → Saterland Frisian: mooi
        • → Scots: moy
        • → Saramaccan: moi
        • → Sranan Tongo: moi
          • → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: moime
        • → West Frisian: moai
    • ⇒ Old Dutch: Moye (surname)

Further reading

  • Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “mooi”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mauja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1. meu-, meū̯ə-: mū̆-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 741
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