Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gaits

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

Cognate with Proto-Italic *haidos, but cannot be traced back to Proto-Indo-European. According to Bjørn, from the same source as Proto-Semitic *gady-, Proto-Berber *a-ɣăyd, Proto-Nakh *gaazaᶰ.

See also *kittīną (“young animal”) and *kidją (“goatling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑi̯ts/

Noun

*gaits f

1. goat

Inflection

consonant stemDeclension of *gaits (consonant stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*gaits	*gaitiz
vocative	*gait	*gaitiz
accusative	*gaitų	*gaitunz
genitive	*gaitiz	*gaitǫ̂
dative	*gaiti	*gaitumaz
instrumental	*gaitē	*gaitumiz

Derived terms

• *gaitīnaz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *gait
  • Old English: gāt
    • Middle English: goot, got, gat, gote, goet, goth, gathe, geet
      • English: goat (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: gait, gayt
      • Yola: geearth, geearte, gurth
  • Old Frisian: *gāt, *gēt
    • North Frisian: giet
    • Saterland Frisian: Geet
      • → German Low German: Jitt (dialectal)
    • West Frisian: geit
  • Old Saxon: gēt
    • Middle Low German: gete, geite
  • Walloon: gade
  • Old Dutch: *geit
    • Middle Dutch: geit
      • Dutch: geit
        • Afrikaans: geit
      • Limburgish: geit
  • Old High German: geiz
    • Middle High German: geiz
      • Alemannic German: Geiss
      • Bavarian: Goaß

        Cimbrian: goaz, gòas (Sette Comuni)

        Mòcheno: goas

      • German: Geiß
      • Luxembourgish: Geess
• Old Norse: geit
  • Icelandic: geit
  • Faroese: geit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: geit
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: geit
  • Old Swedish: gēt, ᚵᚽᛏ
    • Swedish: get
  • Old Danish: gēt
    • Danish: ged
      • Norwegian Bokmål: gjet (obsolete)
  • Elfdalian: djiet
  • Gutnish: gait
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits)
• → Proto-Samic: *kājccë (see there for further descendants)