Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aspō

This Proto-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-Germanic edit

Etymology edit

From an apparent Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”), though the distribution is limited to northern languages spoken in regions where the tree inhabits. Indo-European cognates include Welsh aethnen, Latvian apse, Lithuanian ēpušė (dialectal ãpušė), Old Prussian abse and Proto-Slavic *opsa (along with its suffixed variants *osìna and Southern *esìka), all meaning “aspen”.^[1]^[2]

Noun edit

*aspō f^[1]

aspen

Inflection edit

ō-stemDeclension of *aspō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*aspō	*aspôz
vocative	*aspō	*aspôz
accusative	*aspǭ	*aspōz
genitive	*aspōz	*aspǫ̂
dative	*aspōi	*aspōmaz
instrumental	*aspō	*aspōmiz

Descendants edit

Proto-West Germanic: *aspu
- Old English: æspe, æsp, æps
  - Middle English: aspe; aspen
    - English: asp; aspen
- Old Saxon: *aspa
  - Middle Low German: aspe, espe, hespe
    - Low German: Äsp
- Old Dutch: *aspa, *espa
  - Middle Dutch: espe
    - Dutch: esp
- Old High German: aspa
  - Middle High German: aspe
    - German: Espe
Old Norse: ǫsp
- Icelandic: ösp
- Faroese: øsp
- Norwegian Nynorsk: osp; (dialectal) øsp
- Norwegian Bokmål: osp
- Swedish: asp
- Danish: asp
  - Norwegian Bokmål: asp
→? Proto-Finnic: *haapa (metathesized from *šapa?) (see there for further descendants)

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aspō- ~ *apsō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*opsa; *osìna; *esìka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 378

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aspō- ~ *apsō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*opsa; *osìna; *esìka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 378

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