*at
Runic: ᚨᛏ Pronunciation: /ˈɑt/preposition
Meanings
at, by; toward, to (with accusative or dative)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd, also conventionally reconstructed as *ád. The final dental, usually lost in Proto-Germanic, was retained due to this word being monosyllabic with a short vowel (Fulk 2018: 121; Ringe 2017: 168). Cognate with Latin ad and Proto-Celtic *ad-. Sanskrit आ (ā́) and Avestan 𐬁 (ā) have also been connected: Garnier (Garnier 2014b: 145–47) derives them from a conditioned allomorph *h₂éh₁, developed from *h₂éd through the Kortlandt effect (de Vaan 2008: 24; Kroonen 2013: 39; Matasović 2009a: 24; Ringe 2017: 118).
Descendants
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at (Proto-West Germanic)
- at (Old Dutch)
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at (Proto-West Germanic)
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ot, æt (Old English)
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at, et, ed (Middle English)
- at (English)
- at (Scots)
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at, et, ed (Middle English)
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ot, æt (Old English)
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at (Proto-West Germanic)
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et, it (Old Frisian)
- et, it, äät, äit (North Frisian)
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et, it (Old Frisian)
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at (Proto-West Germanic)
- az, ez (Old High German)
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at (Proto-West Germanic)
- at (Old Saxon)
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at (Old Norse)
- at, ad (Danish)
- at (Faroese)
- að (Icelandic)
- åt, at, å (Norwegian Nynorsk)
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at (Old Norse)
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at, āt (Old Swedish)
- att, åt (Swedish)
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at, āt (Old Swedish)
- 𐌰𐍄 (at) (Gothic)