Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ainakjǭScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ainakjǭ
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Íslensk orðsifjabókÁsgeir BlöndalMagnússonReykjavikOrðabók Háskólans1989From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Kin, Clan and Community in Indo-European societyBenedicte NielsenWhiteheadBirgit AnetteOlsenJanus BahsJacquetCharlottenlundMuseum Tusculanum Press2021ISBN: 978-87-635-4618-8; callNumber: 417.7*h₁óy-no-sone, single*h₁widʰéwh₂widoweinkaespecially, veryeinkumespecially, very
nounfeminineōn-stemwidowPossibly from earlier Proto-Germanic *ainak-jōn- (‘solitary woman’), built to *ainak-/*ainakla- (‘standing alone, solitary’), ultimately from *ainaz (‘one’) with a suffixal *-k-/*-kl- extension, perhaps continuing Proto-Indo-European *h₁oyno-gó- / *h₁oyno-g-lo-Krahe & Meid 1969: §156. Alternatively, according to Olsen, *ainakjǭ is derived from the same stem as Old Norse einka and einkum (genitive and dative plural of unattested adjective **eink). She posits an old compound as a protoform: *Hoyno-gʷ(h₂)o- meaning ‘going alone’, maintaining that “Germanic -k- is not an established suffix” Magnússon 1989: s.v. einka-Whitehead et al. 2021: 151–52. In either case, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óy-no-s. In North Germanic this internal Germanic formation replaced inherited *widuwǭ < Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂: compare Old Norse ekkja, Old East Norse/Old Swedish ænkia, Old Danish ænkiæ, Swedish änka, Danish/Norwegian enkeKroonen 2013: 585Ringe 2017: 61–62, 121Whitehead et al. 2021: 151–52.