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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ajją

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Germanic

Etymology

By Holtzmann's law from *ojóm, by Dybo's law from *ōjóm, by Mahlow's law from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑj.jɑ̃/

Noun

*ajją n [1]

  1. egg

Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *ajją (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *ajją *ajjō
vocative *ajją *ajjō
accusative *ajją *ajjō
genitive *ajjas, *ajis *ajjǫ̂
dative *ajjai *ajjamaz
instrumental *ajjō *ajjamiz

Descendants

West Germanic apparently switched to a z-stem: *ajjaz.

  • Old English: ǣġ
  • Old Frisian: *ei
    • Saterland Frisian: Oai
    • West Frisian: aei, aai
  • Old Saxon: ei, eig, egg
    • Middle Low German: ei, egg, eig
      • Low German:
        • German Low German: Ei
        • Westphalian:
          Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Åich
          Sauerländisch: Ai
          Westmünsterländisch: Äi
          Märkisch: Ägg
      • Plautdietsch: Ei
  • Old Dutch: *ei
    • Middle Dutch: ei
  • Old High German: ei
    • Middle High German: ei
      • Alemannic German:
        Swabian: Oi
      • Bavarian: Oa
      • German: Ei
      • Luxembourgish: Ee
      • Vilamovian: e
      • Yiddish: איי‎ (ey)
  • Old Norse: egg
  • Crimean Gothic: ada

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ajja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 17
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