Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aihti

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.

From Proto-Germanic *aihtiz.

*aihti f

1. possessions, property

   Synonym: *fehu

• Old English: ǣht
  • Middle English: aught, ought
    • English: aught, ought
    • Scots: aucht
• Old Saxon: ēht
  • ⇒ Old Saxon: *frēht (prefixed with *fra-)
    • Middle Low German: vracht
      • German Low German: fracht
      • → Middle Dutch: vracht
        • Dutch: vracht
          • Afrikaans: vrag
      • → Danish: fragt
      • → English: freight, fraught (possibly via Middle Dutch)
      • → German: Fracht
      • → Gutnish: frakt
      • → Norwegian: frakt (possibly via Middle Dutch)
      • → Swedish: frakt
• Old Dutch: *ēht
  • ⇒ Old Dutch: *frēht
    • Middle Dutch: vrecht
• Old High German: ēht