Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wōstinjō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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-GermanicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From *wōstijaz +‎ *-injō.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːs.tin.jɔː/

NounEdit

*wōstinjō f

1. a desert, wilderness, waste

DeclensionEdit

Declension of *wōstinjō (ō-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	*wōstinjō	*wōstinjôz
vocative	*wōstinjō	*wōstinjôz
accusative	*wōstinjǭ	*wōstinjōz
genitive	*wōstinjōz	*wōstinjǫ̂
dative	*wōstinjōi	*wōstinjōmaz
instrumental	*wōstinjō	*wōstinjōmiz

Related termsEdit

• *wōstunjō

DescendantsEdit

• Old English: wēsten
  • Middle English: westen
    • English: westen
• Old Frisian: wēstene, wōstene
  • North Frisian: woastine
  • Saterland Frisian: Wüüste
  • West Frisian: woastyn
• Old Saxon: wōstinnia
  • Middle Low German: wôstine
    • German Low German: Wüüste, Wüüst
    • Plautdietsch: Wuste
• Frankish: *wōstinna, *wuostinna, *wuastinna
  • Old Dutch: *wuostinna
    • Middle Dutch: woestine, woesten
      • Dutch: woestijn (Similarity to Romance loanwords ending in -ine shifted stress to the last syllable, displacing Middle Dutch woesten, which did not survive)
        • Afrikaans: woestyn
  • → Medieval Latin: wastina, wostina, vastina, gastina, wastinia, wastena (see there for further descendants)
• Old High German: wuostinna, wuostin
  • Middle High German: wuostinne, wuosten, wüestin, wuoste
    • German: Wüste
    • Yiddish: וויסט‏ (vist)