Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rōsā

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rosa (“rose”).

Noun

*rōsā f

rose

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*rōsā
Genitive	*rōsōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*rōsā	*rōsōn
Accusative	*rōsōn	*rōsōn
Genitive	*rōsōn	*rōsōnō
Dative	*rōsōn	rōsōm, rōsum
Instrumental	*rōsōn	rōsōm, rōsum

Descendants

Old English: rōse
- Middle English: rose, roose, rosse, roos, ros
  - English: rose (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: rose
Old Frisian: rōs, rōse
- West Frisian: roas
Old Saxon: rōsa
- Middle Low German: rôse
  - German Low German: Reose
  - Plautdietsch: Roos
  - → Latvian: roze
  - → Old Norse: rós, rósa
    - Icelandic: rós
    - Faroese: rósa
    - Norwegian: rose
    - Danish: rose, rosé
      - → Greenlandic: ruusa
    - Old Swedish: ros
      - Swedish: ros (see there for further descendants)
    - Elfdalian: ruos
Old Dutch: *rōsa
- Middle Dutch: rôse, roos
  - Dutch: roos
    - Afrikaans: roos
    - Jersey Dutch: rôz
    - → Caribbean Hindustani: rusi
    - → Papiamentu: deros, deroos
  - Limburgish: roeas
Old High German: rōsa
- Middle High German: rôse
  - Alemannic German: Roos, Roose
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: roas
    
    Mòcheno: roas
  - Central Franconian: Rus
  - German: Rose (see there for further descendants)
  - Vilamovian: ruuz
  - Yiddish: רויז (royz)