Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/biskop

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 Late Latin biscopus, ebiscopus, episcopus.

Noun

*biskop m

(Christianity) bishop

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*biskop
Genitive	*biskopas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*biskop	biskopō, biskopōs
Accusative	*biskop	*biskopā
Genitive	*biskopas	*biskopō
Dative	*biskopē	*biskopum
Instrumental	*biskopu	*biskopum

Descendants

Old English: bisċop, bisċeop
- Middle English: bischop, bisschop, bisshop, byschop, bishup, busshop, bushop, busschop, bysshop, bissop, biscop, bisscopp
  - English: bishop (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: bishop
- → Old Norse: biskup
  - Icelandic: biskup
  - Faroese: biskupur
  - Norwegian Bokmål: biskop, Norwegian Bokmål: bisp
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: biskop, Norwegian Nynorsk: bisp
  - Old Swedish: biskoper, biskuper
    - Swedish: biskop
    - → Finnish: piispa
  - Danish: biskop
Old Frisian: biskop
- Saterland Frisian: Biskop
- West Frisian: biskop
Old Saxon: biskop
- Middle Low German: bischop, bischop, biscop
  - German Low German: Bischopp
Old Dutch: biskop
- Middle Dutch: bischop
  - Dutch: bisschop
    - Afrikaans: biskop
    - →? Mahican: bishop
    - → Malay: biskop
      - Indonesian: biskop
    - → Sranan Tongo: biskop
Old High German: biscof, biskof
- Middle High German: bischof
  - Cimbrian: bissof
  - German: Bischof
  - Vilamovian: bisküp
  - Yiddish: בישאָף (bishof)