Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *akwisīScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_akwisī
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)RobertBeekesBrill2010Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Der Nominalakzent im Frühurgermanischen: Konstanten und NeuerungenKarl-HeinzMottauschHamburgKovač2011ISBN: 978-3-8300-5833-5From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008ἀξῑ́νηaxasciaax; adze; mason’s trowel𒍏𒄩𒍣𒅔ax, hoe, digging toolחֲצִינָאax
nounfeminineī/jō-stemax; a cutting tool consisting of a sharpened head attached to a handleFrom Early Germanic *akwisī ~ *akuzjō-, probably from pre-Germanic *h₂egʷés-ih₂ ~ *h₂egus-yéh₂-, forming a proterokinetic ī/jō-stem paradigm, subsequently leveled differently in Gothic and Northwest Germanic Mottausch 2011: 97Ringe 2017: 301–302. Compare Ancient Greek ἀξῑ́νη < Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷs-i- and Latin ascia < PIE *h₂esk-ieh₂-, with both exhibiting differences in the root consonants and suffixation compared to Proto-Germanic. The word is therefore likely a prehistoric Wanderwort or loan from an unidentified non-Indo-European language rather than an inherited PIE lexeme. Possibly related are Akkadian 𒍏𒄩𒍣𒅔 and its loan descendant Talmudic Aramaic חֲצִינָא, although the historical relationship between the Semitic and European forms remains uncertain Beekes 2010: 111de Vaan 2008: 57Kroonen 2013: s.v. *akwesī-.
Declension
Due to Ablaut, the direct cases have full-grade -wi- while the oblique cases showed zero-grade -u-.