*haiþī

Runic: ᚺᚨᛁᚦᛁ Pronunciation: /ˈxɑi̯.θiː/

noun · feminine · ī/jō-stem

Meanings

heath, wasteland

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kay-t-os (‘forest, wasteland, pasture’), from *kayt- (‘forest, pasture’), with the most certain cognates being in Celtic languages (with Kroonen speculating a borrowing from one branch into the other). Cognate with Proto-Brythonic *koɨd (‘forest’) (Old Welsh coit); outside of Celtic, compare Latin bū-cētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”), Albanian kath (‘type of wheat’), kasht (‘straw’). Whether *kayt- is related to *keyt- (‘to shine’) is unclear.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	haiþī	haiþijôz
Acc.	haiþijǭ	haiþijōz
Gen.	haiþijōz	haiþijǫ̂
Dat.	haiþijōi	haiþijōmaz
Inst.	haiþijō	haiþijōmiz
Voc.	haiþī	haiþijôz

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Descendants

*haiþi (Proto-West Germanic)
- *hētha, *heitha (Old Dutch)
  - heide (Middle Dutch)
    - heide, hei (Dutch)
      - heide (Afrikaans)
*haiþi (Proto-West Germanic)
- hǣþ, *hāþ, hēþ (Old English)
  - heeth, heth, hethe, hath, hathe, hoth, hothe (Middle English)
    - heath, heather (English)
    - haithe (Scots)
*haiþi (Proto-West Germanic)
- *hēthe (Old Frisian)
  - hiiđ (North Frisian)
  - Heede (Saterland Frisian)
  - heide (West Frisian)
*haiþi (Proto-West Germanic)
- heid, heida (Old High German)
  - heide (Middle High German)
    - Heide (German)
    - Heed (Luxembourgish)
*haiþi (Proto-West Germanic)
- *hētha, *heitha (Old Saxon)
  - heide (Middle Low German)
    - Heide (Low German)
      - Heide, Heid, Hede, Heed, Hiede, Hied (German Low German)
      - ? (Westphalian)
heiðr (Old Norse)
- heiði (Faroese)
- heiður, heiði (Icelandic)
- hei (Norwegian Bokmål)
- hei, heid (Norwegian Nynorsk)
heiðr (Old Norse)
- heth (Old Danish)
  - hede (Danish)
    - hede (Norwegian Bokmål)
      - hede (Norwegian Bokmål)
heiðr (Old Norse)
- hēþ (Old Swedish)
  - hed (Swedish)
𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹 (haiþi) (Gothic)

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