Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wet

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms

• *wit

Etymology

According to Ringe (2017), from Proto-Indo-European *wé-dwo. Ringe, in turn, cites Cowgill (1985b: 15-16 with references). Cf. Lithuanian vèdu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wet/

Pronoun

*wet

1. we two

Inflection

Proto-Germanic personal pronouns

		nominative	accusative	dative/instr		possessive
singular	first person	*ek (unstressed *ik)	*mek (unstressed *mik)	*miz		*mīnaz
	second person	*þū	*þek (unstressed *þik)	*þiz		*þīnaz
dual	first person	*wet (unstressed *wit)	*unk	*unkiz		*unkeraz
	second person	*jut, *jit	*inkw	*inkwiz		*inkweraz
plural	first person	*wīz (unstressed *wiz)	*uns	*unsiz		*unseraz
	second person	*jūz, *jīz	*izwiz	*izwiz		*izweraz
reflexive		(*se-)	*sek (unstressed *sik)	*siz		*sīnaz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *wit
  • Old English: wit
    • Middle English: wit
  • Old Frisian: *wit
    • North Frisian: wat
  • Old Saxon: wit
• Old Norse: vit, mit — ← erum vit
  • Icelandic: við
  • Faroese: vit
  • Middle Norwegian: mið
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: me, mid; (dialectal) mið
    • Jamtish: mæð
  • Elfdalian: wįð
  • Old Swedish: vit
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍄 (wit)

References

• Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209: “*wét ~ *wit”
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wit-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 589