Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-inīScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_inī
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The Germanic (i)jō-stem declension: Origin and developmentSverre S.Johnsen2005a(Master’s thesis,Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 9)RankoMatasovićBrill2009aKing’ and ‘queen’ in Celtic and Indo-EuropeanKimMcConeÉriu491–121998A Sanskrit–English dictionary: Etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languagesMonierMonier-WilliamsOxford University Press1899New Comparative Grammar of Greek and LatinAndrew L.SihlerOxford University Press1995*rīganīqueen-𐌹𐌽𐌹forms nouns indicating a female individual-ynja-ess; added to titles of nobility to indicate that the title refers to a femaleराज्ञी॑queen*-yniforms feminine nouns; forms nouns denoting a carrier of the specified property, state or condition
suffixnounfeminineī/jō-stemforms nouns denoting a female individual, especially the female counterpart of a masculine or common-gender noun; ‘female X’, ‘X-ess’From pre-Germanic *-én-ih₂ ~ *-n̥-yéh₂, an ablauting compound suffix consisting of an Indo-European *n-formant, used in individualizing, appurtenance, and participant-noun formations, plus the Proto-Indo-European feminine suffix *-ih₂ ~ *-yéh₂Johnsen 2005a: 143–44. The inherited ablaut gave Proto-Germanic nominative singular *-inī beside oblique *-unjō-, which was later leveled. This explains the mixture of forms seen in the daughter languages: Gothic has isolated -𐌹𐌽𐌹, Old Norse has rare -ynja, while West Germanic generalized -in-/-inn- (though Old Saxon also had -unnia- from the oblique form in addition to -in- forms) Johnsen 2005a: 143–44. The closest Indo-European comparanda are Proto-Slavic *-yni and Indo-Iranian and Celtic formations in -n-ī, especially Sanskrit राज्ञी॑Monier-Williams 1899: 875 and Proto-Celtic *rīganī. These were both built from the word for ‘king’ with similar -n- + a feminine suffix Krahe & Meid 1969: 119–22Matasović 2009a: 311McCone 1998: 1–5. Latin is a close Italic comparandum, but the exact history of the suffix is uncertain; see for instance Sihler 1995: 278.