witut

Old Dutch

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *witōþ, from Proto-Germanic *witōþą.

Noun

witut n

1. law

   Synonym: ēwa

   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     Got mīn gineri mī fan hendi sundigis, in fan hendi wither witut wirkendes in unrehtis

     Save me, God, from the hands of the sinner, and from the hands of the one that acts agains the law and the unrighteous.

Declension

Declension of witut (neuter a-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	witut	witut
accusative	witut	witut
genitive	witudes	witudo
dative	witude	witudon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wet
  • Dutch: wet
    • Afrikaans: wet
    • Jersey Dutch: wät
    • Negerhollands: wet
    • → Ambonese Malay: wet
    • → Caribbean Javanese: wèt
    • → Indonesian: wet
    • → Madurese: ꦮꦺꦠ꧀ (wet)
    • → Sranan Tongo: wèt
      • → Aukan: weiti
      • → Saramaccan: weti
    • → Sundanese: wét
  • Limburgish: wèt
  • → Middle High German: wette
    • Central Franconian: Wett (obsolete)

Further reading

“witut”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012