WurdahuzdΔ : Proto-Germanic dictionary β *-assuzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_assuz
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017π²π°πΉπ±π½πΎπ°π½to level, to make evenπΉπ±π½π°πππΏπequalityπΉπ±π½πeven; plain, flat, level*-tu-sforms nouns from verb roots
suffixnounmasculineu-stemforms abstract nounsFrom earlier *-at-tuz, from *-atjanΔ + *-tuz (*-ΓΎuz, from Proto-Indo-European *-tu-s). The extension *-at- was reanalyzed by speakers as part of the root, and the word was then reformulated as a tu-stem. The *-tt- coronal cluster produced *-ss- (via an intermediate *-ts-) Fulk 2018: 113. This suffix was likely already being used in Proto-Germanic as a general noun-forming suffix rather than being strictly deverbal, as evidenced by Gothic πΉπ±π½π°πππΏπ, which seemingly came from πΉπ±π½π, rather than from a verb *πΉπ±π½πΎπ°π½ (*ibnjan, attested as π²π°πΉπ±π½πΎπ°π½) Ringe 2017: 325. Closely related to *-inassuz and probably related to *-ΕΓΎuz.