Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aiþį̄Scott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aiþį
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Alleged nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship termsBjarne Simmelkjær SandgaardHansenBjarne Simmelkjær SandgaardHansenAdamHyllestedAnders RichardtJørgensenGuusKroonenJenny HelenaLarssonBenedicte NielsenWhiteheadThomasOlanderTobias MosbækSøborgUsque ad Radices: Indo-European Studies in Honour of Birgit Anette OlsenCopenhagenMuseum Tusculanum Press207–2202017aISBN: 978-87-635-4576-1Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms10.1075/nowele.00011.hanBjarne Simmelkjær SandgaardHansenNOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution712176-18320182026-08-01T15:39:16Zhttp://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/nowele.00011.hanISSN: 0108-8416, 2212-9715Lexikon der älteren germanischen Lehnwörter in den ostseefinnischen SprachenA. D.KylstraSirkka-LiisaHahmoTetteHofstraOsmoNikkiläAmsterdamRodopiBd. 3: P - Ä2012ISBN: 978-90-420-3470-9German, aiþa- „Eid, Eideshelfereid“ : got. aiþei „Mutter“FritzMezgerZeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen SprachenVandendhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG761./2.85-861959Kinship and Affinity in Indo-European: Universal, Inherited, Contact, and Area Specific Features of Indo-European Kinship Terms (with a Special Focus on the Iranian Branch)VeronikaMilanovaVienna2020dissertation*h₁ey-to goæwlaw, marriage; married woman, married couple*äiteimother
nounfeminineīn-stemmotherProbably derived from *aiþaz, originally denoting a woman joined by a binding marital oath, hence ‘lawful wife, wedded woman’ and subsequently ‘mother’. Hansen 2017a: 209–11 reconstructs a Proto-Indo-European formation *h₁óy-ti-h₃n(h₂)- (‘the one endowed or charged with an oath’), a ti-stem from an o-grade form of root *h₁ey-, with the Hoffmann suffix (creates nouns and adjectives meaning ‘one who possesses, is characterized by, or is associated with X’), though the precise suffixal analysis remains uncertain. The semantic development is supported by Old English æw and its adjectival use in the sense ‘lawful, legitimate’ Hansen 2017a: 209–11Mezger 1959Milanova 2020: 85. The traditional interpretation as a nursery formation is unlikely; unlike genuine Germanic nursery words such as *attô and*ammǭ, *aiþį̄ lacks the characteristic phonological structure of child-directed formations Hansen 2017a: 210Hansen 2018: 176–79, 181. Proto-Finnic *äitei is probably borrowed from Germanic Kylstra et al. 2012: 429–30.