Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dāhwā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps cognate with Old Prussian doacke (“starling”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*dāhwā f^[1]

jackdaw
Synonym: *dāhwilā

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*dāhwā
Genitive	*dāhwōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*dāhwā	*dāhwōn
Accusative	*dāhwōn	*dāhwōn
Genitive	*dāhwōn	*dāhwōnō
Dative	*dāhwōn	dāhwōm, dāhwum
Instrumental	*dāhwōn	dāhwōm, dāhwum

Alternative reconstructions

*dagwā^[1]
*dahā^[2]

Derived terms

*dāhwilā

Descendants

Old English: *dāwe
- Middle English: dawe
  - English: daw
    - ⇒ English: jackdaw
  - Scots: da, daa, daw
Old Saxon: dāha
Old High German: tāha
- Middle High German: tāhe
  - German: Tach, Dache (dialectal)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Dohle”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 149: “wg. *dagwōn/dahwōn”
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*đēxōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 72

[EWddS-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Dohle”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 149: “wg. *dagwōn/dahwōn”

[HGE-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*đēxōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 72

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