Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/jit

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jut.

Pronoun

*jit^[1]

you two

Inflection

Proto-West Germanic personal pronouns
singular	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	*ik	*þū	-
accusative	*mik	*þik	*sik
dative	*miʀ	*þiʀ	*sik
possessive	*mīn	*þīn	*sīn
dual	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	*wit	*jit	-
accusative	*unk	*inkw	*sik
dative	*unk		*sik
possessive	*unkar	*inkwar	*sīn
plural	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	*wiʀ	*jiʀ	-
accusative	*uns	*iwwi	*sik
dative	*uns	*iwwi	*sik
possessive	*unsar	*iuwar	*sīn

Descendants

Except for North Frisian, all modern descendants have plural (not dual) meaning.

Old English: ġit
- Middle English: ȝit
Old Frisian: *it, *jit
- North Frisian: at (Sylt), jat (elsewhere, obsolete)
Old Saxon: git
- Middle Low German: *git, *it
  - Low German: git, it, iët (South Westphalian, Sauerland)
Old Dutch: *git, *it
- Bergish: et, get, git, it
Old High German: *iz
- Middle High German: ëz
  - Bavarian: es
  - Yiddish: עץ (ets) (Poylish)

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*jit”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*jit”

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