Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To beat with twigs.
A small thin branch of a tree or bush. · Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dwigʰomder. Proto-Germanic *twīgą Proto-West Germanic *twīg Old English twiġ Middle English twig English twig From Middle English twig, twyg, twigge, twygge, from Old English twigg, twicg, from Proto-West Germanic *twiggu (“small twig, shoot”), apparently a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *twig (“branch, twig”) (whence also Old English twiġ and twiġa), from Proto-Germanic *twīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *dwigʰom, from *dwóh₁. More at two. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian twiich, twiig (“twig”), Saterland Frisian Twiech (“branch, twig”), West Frisian twiich (“twig”), Dutch twijg (“twig”), German Zweig (“branch, twig; section”), German Low German Twieg (“branch, twig”), Luxembourgish Zwäig (“twig”), Yiddish צווײַג (tsvayg, “branch”); also Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiontwigenm
- Inherited-form mentiontwicgang
- Inherited-form mention*twiggugmw-pro · small twig, shoot
- Derivation mention*twiggmw-pro · branch, twig
- Cognate mentiontwiġang
- Inherited-form mention*twīgągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dwigʰomine-pro
- Cognate mentiontwiichfrr
- Cognate mentionTwiechstq · branch, twig
- Cognate mentiontwiichfy · twig
- Cognate mentiontwijgnl · twig
- Cognate mentionZweigde · branch, twig; section
- Cognate mentionZwäiglb · twig
- Cognate mentionצווײַגyi · branch
- Cognate mentionдвигъcu · branch
- Cognate mentiondegësq · branch
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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