Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gips

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.

Proto-West Germanic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin gypsum.^[1]

Noun edit

*gips m

plaster

Inflection edit

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gips
Genitive	*gipsas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gips	gipsō, gipsōs
Accusative	*gips	*gipsā
Genitive	*gipsas	*gipsō
Dative	*gipsē	*gipsum
Instrumental	*gipsu	*gipsum

Descendants edit

Old Saxon: *gips
- Middle Low German: gips
  - → Danish: gips
  - → Norwegian: gips
  - → Swedish: gips
Old Dutch: *gips
- Middle Dutch: ghips
  - Dutch: gips
    - Afrikaans: gips
    - → West Frisian: gips
    - → Indonesian: gips
    - → Japanese: ギプス
    - → Korean: 깁스 (gipseu)
Old High German: gips
- Middle High German: gips
  - German: Gips (see there for further descendants)
  - → Polish: gips

References edit

^ de Vries, Jan (1971) “gips”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Vries, Jan (1971) “gips”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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