Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/saipā

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

From Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

Noun edit

*saipā f^[1]

soap

Inflection edit

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*saipā
Genitive	*saipōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*saipā	*saipōn
Accusative	*saipōn	*saipōn
Genitive	*saipōn	*saipōnō
Dative	*saipōn	saipōm, saipum
Instrumental	*saipōn	saipōm, saipum

Descendants edit

Old English: sāpe
- Middle English: sope, sape
  - English: soap (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: saip, sape
  - → Middle Irish: sóp
  - → Old Norse: sápa
    - Icelandic: sápa
    - Faroese: sápa
    - Norwegian: såpa, såpe
      - → Danish: såpe
        Norwegian Bokmål: såpe
    - Old Swedish: sāpa
      - Swedish: såpa
        → Finnish: suopa, soopa
Old Frisian: *sēpe
- Saterland Frisian: Seepe
- West Frisian: sjippe
Old Saxon: *sēpa
- Middle Low German: sēpe, seipe
  - German Low German: Seep
  - Dutch Low Saxon: ziepe, zaip, zaipe, zeeip, zepe, zeip, ziep, zaibe, zeep
  - → Estonian: seep
  - → Danish: sæbe
    - Norwegian Bokmål: sæbe, sæpe, sepe
  - → Latvian: ziepes
Old Dutch: *sēpa, *seipa
- Middle Dutch: sêpe, seipe
  - Dutch: zeep
    - Afrikaans: seep (see there for further descendants)
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: sepu
    - Skepi Creole Dutch: sepu
      - → Akawaio: seepoo, sawana
      - → Pemon: seepoo, sawana
    - → Lokono: sêpo
  - Limburgish: zeip
Old High German: seipfa, seiffa, seifa
- Middle High German: seife
  - Alemannic German: Seif, Seife, Seifi, Seipfe, Soapfe
    Swabian: Soif
  - Bavarian: Saf, Soaffa, Soaf
  - Central Franconian: Seef, Sääf, Seif
    Hunsrik: Seif
    
    Luxembourgish: Seef
  - East Central German:
    Vilamovian: zaof
  - East Franconian: Saafe
  - German: Seife
  - Rhine Franconian: Saaf, Saaif, Sääf, Sääif, Seef
    Frankfurterisch: [saːf]
    
    Pennsylvania German: Seef
  - Yiddish: זייף (zeyf)

References edit

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *saipā”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *saipā”

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