Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/krabbô

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

Etymology

An agent noun derivation of Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to crawl; scratch”) via *krabbōną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkrɑb.bɔːː/

Noun

*krabbô m

crab

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *krabbô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*krabbô	*krabbaniz
vocative	*krabbô	*krabbaniz
accusative	*krabbanų	*krabbanunz
genitive	*krabbiniz	*krabbanǫ̂
dative	*krabbini	*krabbammaz
instrumental	*krabbinē	*krabbammiz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *krabbō
- Old English: crabba
  - Middle English: crabbe
    - Scots: crab, craib
    - English: crab
- Old Frisian: *krabba
  - North Frisian: kraab
  - Saterland Frisian: Krabbe
  - West Frisian: kraab, krab
- Old Saxon: *krabbo
  - Middle Low German: krabbe
    - German Low German: Krabbe, Krabb
    - Low German: Krabbe
    - → German: Krabbe
    - → Lower Sorbian: kraba
- Old Dutch: *crabbo
  - Middle Dutch: crabbe
    - Dutch: krab
      - Afrikaans: krap
    - Limburgish: krab
    - → Walloon: crappe, crape
    - → Picard: crape
- Old High German: *chrappo, *krappo
  - Middle High German: krappe
    - German: Krappe
    - Luxembourgish: Krabb
Old Norse: krabbi
- Icelandic: krabbi
- Faroese: krabbi
- Norn: krabbi
- Norwegian: krabbe
- Old Swedish: krabbe
  - Swedish: krabba
- Danish: krabbe
- → Old French: crabe
  - Middle French: crabe
    - French: crabe
    - Norman: crabe (Jèrriais)
    - → Romanian: crab
others:
- → Latvian: krabis
- → Lithuanian: krabas
- → Belarusian: краб (krab)
- → Russian: краб (krab)
- → Ukrainian: краб (krab)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: кра̏ба
  
  Latin script: krȁba
- → Macedonian: крабар (krabar)
- → Czech: krab
- → Kashubian: krab, kraba
- → Polish: krab
- → Slovak: krab
- → Lower Sorbian: kraba
- → Upper Sorbian: kraba
- → Proto-Finnic:
  - Estonian: krabi
  - Finnish: rapu
  - Ingrian: krapu
  - Votic: krapu