Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plihti

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 *plehan +‎ *-þi.^[1]

Noun

*plihti f^[2]

care, maintenance, diligence
responsibility, duty, obligation

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plihti
Genitive	*plihtī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plihti	*plihtī
Accusative	*plihti	*plihtī
Genitive	*plihtī	*plihtijō
Dative	*plihtī	plihtim, plihtijum
Instrumental	*plihtī	plihtim, plihtijum

Derived terms

*plihtijan

Descendants

>? Old English: pliht
- Middle English: pliht, pliȝt, plyght
  - Scots: plicht
  - English: plight
Old Frisian: plicht
- Saterland Frisian: Plicht
- West Frisian: plicht
Old Saxon: *pliht
- Middle Low German: plicht
  - German Low German: Plicht
  - Low German: Plicht
  - → Danish: pligt
  - → Swedish: plikt
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: plikt
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: plikt
Old Dutch: *pliht
- Middle Dutch: plicht
  - Dutch: plicht
    - Afrikaans: plig
Old High German: *pfliht, *phliht
- Middle High German: pflicht
  - German: Pflicht
    - → Luxembourgish: Flicht, Pflicht
    - → Saterland Frisian: Flicht

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*plehti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “PWGmc *plihti”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*plehti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397

[2] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “PWGmc *plihti”

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