Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/awjō

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

From earlier *agwjō; related to *ahwō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.jɔː/

Noun

*awjō f [1]

floodplain; meadow
island

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *awjō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*awjō	*awjôz
vocative	*awjō	*awjôz
accusative	*awjǭ	*awjōz
genitive	*awjōz	*awjǫ̂
dative	*awjōi	*awjōmaz
instrumental	*awjō	*awjōmiz

Derived terms

*awjōlandą (“island”)
*Batawjō (“Batavia”)
*gawją (“district, shire”)
*Skaþinawjō (“Scandia”)

Related terms

*ahwō

Descendants

Old English: īeġ, ēġ
- Middle English: ei, i, ie
- ⇒ Old English: īġoþ
  - Middle English: eyt
    - English: eyot, ait
- ⇒ Old English: īeġland, īġland
  - Middle English: yland, iland
    - English: island
Old Frisian: ā
- Saterland Frisian: Äi
Old Saxon: ōia
- Middle Low German: ouwe, ou, ow, ō (in compounds)
Old Dutch: ōi, *owe
- Middle Dutch: ooy, ouwe
  - Dutch: ooibos, landouw
Old High German: ouwa
- Middle High German: ouwe
  - German: Au, Aue
  - Luxembourgish: A
Old Norse: ey, ei, æ
- Icelandic: ey, eyja
- Faroese: oyggj, oy
- Norwegian:
  - Norwegian Bokmål: øy
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: øy
- Old Swedish: ø̄
  - Swedish: ö
- Danish: ø
  - → English: oe
- Gutnish: oy
- Westrobothnian: öy, oi
- → English: -ey, -ay (in place names)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aujō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 41

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aujō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 41