Where does “geit” come from?

geit (Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic gaits, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰayd-.

geit (Old Norse): a she-goat

Definitions

  1. a she-goat

Ancestry of “geit”, step by step

geit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic gaits

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicgaitsgoat
2Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰayd-—

via Germanic *gaits

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanic*gaits—

Words derived from “geit”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰayd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic gaits →
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