Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/altārī

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

Borrowed from Latin altārium (“altar”).

Noun

*altārī m

1. altar

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*altārī
Genitive	*altārijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*altārī	*altārijō, *altārijōs
Accusative	*altārī	*altārijā
Genitive	*altārijas	*altārijō
Dative	*altārijē	*altārijum
Instrumental	*altāriju	*altārijum

Descendants

• Old English: alter, altar
  • Middle English: alter
    • English: altar
      • → Maori: āta
    • Scots: altar
• Old Frisian: altare, alter
  • West Frisian: alter
• Old Saxon: altāri
  • Middle Low German: altār, alter, oltar, olter, altāre
  • → Old Norse: altari
    • Icelandic: altari
    • Faroese: altar
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: altar; (dialectal) altari
    • Old Swedish: altari
      • Swedish: altare
      • → Finnish: alttari
    • Danish: alter
      • Norwegian Bokmål: alter
• Old Dutch: *altāri
  • Middle Dutch: altare
    • Dutch: altaar
      • Afrikaans: altaar
      • Negerhollands: altar
      • → Indonesian: altar
      • → Sranan Tongo: altari
    • Limburgish: alter
• Old High German: altāri
  • Middle High German: alter, altære
    • Cimbrian: altar
    • German: Altar
    • Luxembourgish: Altor
  • → Old Church Slavonic: олътарь (olŭtarĭ) (see there for further descendants)