Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skuldihaitijō

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 *skuldi (“tribute, debts, crime”) +‎ *haitijō (“caller, leader”).

Noun

*skuldihaitijō m^[1]

one who settles debts, a legal officer

Declension

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skuldihaitijō
Genitive	skuldihaitijini, skuldihaitijan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skuldihaitijō	*skuldihaitijan
Accusative	*skuldihaitijan	*skuldihaitijan
Genitive	skuldihaitijini, skuldihaitijan	*skuldihaitijanō
Dative	skuldihaitijini, skuldihaitijan	*skuldihaitijum
Instrumental	skuldihaitijini, skuldihaitijan	*skuldihaitijum

Alternative reconstructions

*skuldihaitijā^[2]

Descendants

Old English: sċyldhǣta, sċuldhēta
Old Frisian: skeltāta, skelta, schelta
Old Saxon: skuldhētio
- Middle Low German: schulthete, schultete, schulte
Old Dutch: skolthēti
- Middle Dutch: sculthete, schouthete, schouthet, scoutete, scoute, scout, scouthate, scoutate, schouteet, schoutate, schoutaet, schouthate, schoutete, schoutheit, schouteit schoutet, schoute, schout, scholte, schulte, scholtis, schoutent
  - Dutch: schout
    - Afrikaans: skout
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: skotu
    - Sranan Tongo: skowtu
      - Aukan: sikowtu
      - Saramaccan: sikooútu
      - → Caribbean Hindustani: skoutu, skotu
      - → Dutch: skotoe
      - → Trió: sikoutu
    - → Caribbean Javanese: sekaut, skaut
    - → English: schout
    - → Indonesian: sekaut
    - → Javanese: sekaut
Old High German: sculdheizo, scultheizzo, schultheizo, sculthaizeo, scultheizo
- Middle High German: schultheiz(e), schultez(e), (since 14th c., attested as scolze, schultz etc.) *schulz(e)
  - German: Schulze, Schultheiß
  - → Hungarian: soltész
  - → Kashubian: szôłtës
  - → Polish: sołtys
  - → Romanian: șoltuz
Lombardic: schuldhais
- → Medieval Latin: sculdasius, sculdachius
  - Italian: sculdascio
→ Latin: scultetus
- → Italian: scoltetto

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235: “PWGmc *skuldihaitijō”
^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Schultheiß”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 655: “wg. *skuldihait(j)ōn”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235: “PWGmc *skuldihaitijō”

[2] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Schultheiß”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 655: “wg. *skuldihait(j)ōn”

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