Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-į̄Scott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_į
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018*-ih₂feminizes athematic nominal stems*-n-n-stem suffix
suffixnounfeminineīn-stemforms feminine abstract nouns from adjectives, denoting ‘the condition, degree, quality, or state of being X’; comparable to English -ness, -ity, and -thFrom pre-Germanic *-īn, from Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ + *-n-. Its use as a productive abstract-noun suffix is a Germanic innovation. Proto-Germanic feminine ōn-stems created from PIE eh₂-stems are a parallel development: pre-Germanic *-ī + *-n : pre-Germanic *-ō + *-n Fulk 2018: 172–73. The suffix became productive in abstract nouns from adjectives, e.g. *hauhį̄ from *hauhaz, and competed with inherited *-iþō in forming abstract feminine nouns.