Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/erþu
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *erþō.
Noun edit
*erþu f[1]
Inflection edit
ō-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *erþu | |
Genitive | *erþā | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *erþu | *erþō |
Accusative | *erþā | *erþā |
Genitive | *erþā | *erþō |
Dative | *erþē | *erþōm, *erþum |
Instrumental | *erþu | *erþōm, *erþum |
Descendants edit
- Old English: eorþe, earðe; iorðe; eorþ, earþe, iorþe, yrþ, eorðe, eorðo, eorðu; eorþæ, heorðe, heordæ, eorda, eordæ, eorða
- Old Frisian: erthe, erde, irthe
- Old Saxon: ertha, erda
- Middle Low German: êrde
- Old Dutch: ertha
- Old High German: erda, haerda
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 182: “PWGmc *erþu”