Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-istazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_istaz
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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 Gruyter2003From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017-ῐστοςadded to some adjectives to form a superlative adjective*-is-tó-s*-tó-forms verbal adjectives from verb roots*-yos- ~ *-is-derives adjectives meaning ‘exceptionally X’-इष्ठforms superlative adjectives
suffixadja-stemforms the superlative of certain adjectivesFrom the Proto-Indo-European formation *-is-tó-s, from an elative suffix *-yos- ~ *-is- + *-tó-Meier-Brügger 2003: 219–22Ringe 2017: 229, 316–18. It was the inherited adjectival superlative suffix corresponding to comparative *-is. It was commonly used with i-, u-, and ja-stem adjectives. Proto-Germanic also developed a similar suffix, *-ōstaz, corresponding to the comparative form *-ōz, mainly used with a/ō-stem adjectives. But note that the distribution of *-istaz and *-ōstaz in adjectives based on a/ō-stem adjectives was lexical and analogical and not fully predictable Fulk 2018: 219–20. This suffix is cognate with Ancient Greek -ῐστος and Sanskrit -इष्ठ (which reflects the related PIE variant *-is-th₂o-) both forming superlative adjectives Meier-Brügger 2003: 221–22.