Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-þuzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_þuz
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969A Gothic Etymological DictionaryWinfred P.LehmannBrill1986aIndo-European nominal classification: From abstract to feminineSilviaLuraghiStephanie W.JamisonH.CraigMelchertBrentVineProceedings of the 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European ConferenceBremenHempen2009From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017-τύςforms nouns of action*pér-tu-s ~ *pr̥-téw-scrossing*-ti-sforms abstract/action nouns from verb roots*-tu-forms nouns from verb roots*-tu-sforms nouns from verb roots-तुforms nouns from roots and verbal stems-tusforms action nouns from verbs
suffixnounmasculineu-stemforms verbal nouns, especially from inherited root verbs, denoting an action, process, result, state, or concrete product/place associated with the verbFrom Proto-Indo-European *-tu-s, a proterokinetic masculine action-noun suffix. PIE *-tu- was one of the major verbal abstract/action-noun suffixes, but its reflexes often developed a more concrete or resultative sense than the similar feminine *-ti-s formations Krahe & Meid 1969: 151–52Luraghi 2009: 5–6Ringe 2017: 74. The suffix assumed different forms based on the final consonants of the base: after -f, -s, and -h, the t- remained unshifted; it was also subject to Verner's Law if the original accent was on the suffix, in which case the t- became a d-Lehmann 1986a: §4.2.1; compare *ferþuz and *furduz < PIE *pér-tu-s ~ *pr̥-téw-s. Cognates include Latin -tus-tus, Lithuanian -tus, Sanskrit -तु, and Ancient Greek -τύς, all forming action nouns.