Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wōstī

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

Alternative forms

*wōst, *wōstu

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wōstaz,^[1] *wōstuz^[2] +‎ *-ī (adjective suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-s-to-s, *h₁weh₂-s-tu-s, from *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon”). Cognate with Latin vāstus (“empty; wasted; vast”), Old Irish fás (“empty, void, uninhabited”).^[2]

Adjective

*wōstī^[3]^[4]

uninhabited, desolate, waste

Inflection

ja-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*wōstī
Genitive	*wōstijas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*wōstī	*wōstiju	*wōstī
Accusative	*wōstijanā	*wōstijā	*wōstī
Genitive	*wōstijas	*wōstijeʀā	*wōstijas
Dative	*wōstijumē	*wōstijeʀē	*wōstijumē
Instrumental	*wōstiju	*wōstijeʀu	*wōstiju
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*wōstijē	*wōstijō	*wōstiju
Accusative	*wōstijā	*wōstijā	*wōstiju
Genitive	*wōstijeʀō	*wōstijeʀō	*wōstijeʀō
Dative	wōstijēm, wōstijum	wōstijēm, wōstijum	wōstijēm, wōstijum
Instrumental	wōstijēm, wōstijum	wōstijēm, wōstijum	wōstijēm, wōstijum

Derived terms

*wōstį̄
*wōstini

Descendants

Old English: wēste, wœ̄ste, wōstu
- Middle English: weste, west, wesste (Ormulum)
Old Frisian: wēste, wōst
- Saterland Frisian: wöist
- West Frisian: woast
Old Saxon: wōsti
- Middle Low German: wôste, wûste
  - German Low German: wööst
Old Dutch: wuosti
- Middle Dutch: woeste
  - Dutch: woest
    - Afrikaans: woes
  - Limburgish: weus
Old High German: wuosti, wuasti
- Middle High German: wüeste
  - German: wüst
  - Luxembourgish: wéischt
  - Hunsrik: wiest
→ Vulgar Latin: *wasti, *guasti
- Old French: waste, wast, gaste
  - Middle French: gast
  - → Middle English: waste, wast
    - English: waste
    - Scots: waste, wast, waist

References

^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*wōstaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wōstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593: “*ueh₂s-tu-”
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 227: “PWGmc (but not Frisian?) *wōstī”
^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “wüst”, 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 801

[1] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*wōstaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470

[EDPG-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wōstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593: “*ueh₂s-tu-”

[3] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 227: “PWGmc (but not Frisian?) *wōstī”

[4] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “wüst”, 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 801

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