Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/īhu

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

From Proto-Germanic *īhwaz.

Noun

*īhu m

1. yew tree

Inflection

Masculine wa-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*īhu
Genitive	*īhwas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*īhu	*īhwō, *īhwōs
Accusative	*īhu	*īhwā
Genitive	*īhwas	*īhwō
Dative	*īhwē	*īhum
Instrumental	*īhu	*īhum

Descendants

• Old English: īw, ēow, ēoh
  • Middle English: ew, u, iw, iv, eev, hw, ewe
    • English: yew
    • Scots: yew, ewe
    • Yola: yew
• Old Saxon: īh, īch
  • Middle Low German: îve, yue, iwe
    • German Low German: Iev
• Old Dutch: *īwa
  • Middle Dutch: ieve, ijf (possibly a reborrowing from Latin or Romance)
    • Dutch: ijf
• Old High German: īwa, eiba, īgo, īga, īha f
  • Middle High German: īwe, ībe
    • Alemannic German: Iche, Ige
    • Cimbrian: aiba
    • German: Eibe
    • Yiddish: אייבנבוים (eybnboym)
• → Late Latin: ivus, *iva
  • Spanish: iva
  • Old French: if
    • Middle French: if
      • French: if
    • Norman: if