Where does “wurhto” come from?

wurhto (Old High German) comes from Proto-West Germanic wurhtijō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

wurhto (Old High German): worker

Definitions

  1. worker

Ancestry of “wurhto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicwurhtijōworker, workman
2Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
5Chichewaiyehe, she
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