Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ētą

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

Etymology

From *etaną (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeː.tɑ̃/

Noun

*ētą n[1]

the act of eating
food

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *ētą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*ētą	*ētō
vocative	*ētą	*ētō
accusative	*ētą	*ētō
genitive	ētas, ētis	*ētǫ̂
dative	*ētai	*ētamaz
instrumental	*ētō	*ētamiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *āt
- Old English: ǣt
  - Middle English: æte, ate, ete; ates, etes (plural)
    - English: eat; eats (plural)
- Old Frisian: ēt
  - North Frisian: ad, it
- Old Saxon: āt
  - Middle Low German: ât
- Old Dutch: āt
  - Middle Dutch: aet
    - Dutch: aat
- Old High German: āz
  - Middle High German: āz
    - German: Aas (merged with *ēsą)
Old Norse: át
- Icelandic: át
- Norwegian Nynorsk: åt
- Norwegian Bokmål: åt

References

Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ētan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 88

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[HGE-1] Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ētan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 88