Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-istScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ist
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018Indo-European linguistics (Charles Gertmenian, Trans.; in cooperation with Matthias Fritz & Manfred Mayrhofer)MichaelMeier-BrüggerWalter de Gruyter2003*-tó-forms verbal adjectives from verb roots*-yos- ~ *-is-derives adjectives meaning ‘exceptionally X’*-is-to-forms superlatives
suffixadverbforms the superlative of certain adverbsFrom the Proto-Indo-European formation: *-is-to-, from an elative suffix *-yos- ~ *-is- + *-tó-Meier-Brügger 2003: 220–22. It was the inherited adverbial superlative suffix corresponding to comparative *-is and was commonly used with adverbs based on i-, u-, and ja-stems. Beside it, Proto-Germanic developed *-ōst, corresponding to comparative *-ōz, chiefly used with adverbs derived from a-stem adjectives. Note that the distribution of *-ist and *-ōst in adverbs based on a/ō-stem adjectives was lexical and analogical and not fully predictable Fulk 2018: 219–20, 239–40.