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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ganut

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

From *gans (“goose”) +‎ *-ut (animal suffix).[1]

Noun

*ganut m

gander

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*ganut
Genitive	*ganutas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*ganut	ganutō, ganutōs
Accusative	*ganut	*ganutā
Genitive	*ganutas	*ganutō
Dative	*ganutē	*ganutum
Instrumental	*ganutu	*ganutum

Alternative reconstructions

*ganit, *ganat

Derived terms

*ganutijō
- Old Saxon: *ganutio, *genitio
  - Middle Low German: gante, gente, gant
- Old High German: ganazzo, ganzo
  - Middle High German: ganze
    - German: Ganze, Ganz, Genz, (Rhineland, Lorraine) Gunz

Descendants

Old English: ganot, ganet
- Middle English: ganet, ganat, gante
  - English: gannet
  - Yola: gannt
Old Frisian: *ganet, *genet
- Saterland Frisian: Gant, Gont
- West Frisian: gent, gint
Old Dutch: *ganit, *genit
- Middle Dutch: *gant, gent, ghent
  - Dutch: gent, (dialectal) gant

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ganuta(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 169

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