Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þebu

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

Unknown; compare *þebōn (“to be heated”), but the semantic gap is hard to bridge.

Noun

*þebu f

1. (Anglo-Frisian Germanic) A young ewe.

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*þebu
Genitive	*þebā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*þebu	*þebō
Accusative	*þebā	*þebā
Genitive	*þebā	*þebō
Dative	*þebē	*þebōm, *þebum
Instrumental	*þebu	*þebōm, *þebum

Descendants

• Old English: *þeofu
  • Middle English: theve, theyve
    • English: theave, thaive, thave
• Old Frisian: *theve
  • North Frisian:

    Amrum: seew

    Föhr: teew

    Sylt: Teew

  • ⇒ Old Frisian: *thevek
    • North Frisian:

      Amrum: seefk

      Föhr: teefk

    • ⇒ West Frisian: touke

References

• Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “ei”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 19: “F. teew, E. theave < *tebō?”.