Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gras

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 *grasą.

Noun

*gras n

1. grass

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gras
Genitive	*grasas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gras	*grasu
Accusative	*gras	*grasu
Genitive	*grasas	*grasō
Dative	*grasē	*grasum
Instrumental	*grasu	*grasum

Derived terms

• *grasag

Descendants

• Old English: græs, gærs
  • Middle English: gras, grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese
    • English: grass
      • Tok Pisin: gras, garas
      • → Fiji Hindi: giraas
    • Scots: gress, gres, grais, graiss, grase, gers, girs
• Old Frisian: gers, gres
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: gäärs

    Sylt: Gērs

  • Saterland Frisian: Gäärs
  • West Frisian: gers, gjers, jers
• Old Saxon: gras
  • Middle Low German: gras
    • Dutch Low Saxon: gras
    • German Low German: Gras
      • Plautdietsch: Grauss
• Old Dutch: *gras
  • Middle Dutch: gras, gars, gers
    • Dutch: gras
      • Afrikaans: gras
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: grasa
      • Jersey Dutch: x'rās, grās
      • Negerhollands: graas, gras
      • → Sranan Tongo: grasi
        • → Saramaccan: gaási
    • Limburgish: graas
    • West Flemish: ges, gas
    • Zealandic: gos
• Old High German: gras
  • Middle High German: gras
    • Alemannic German: Gras

      Italian Walser: gras, gros

    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: gras, grass

      Mòcheno: gros

      Udinese: gròs, gros, groos

    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Graas

      Luxembourgish: Gras

    • East Central German:

      Vilamovian: gros

    • East Franconian:
    • German: Gras
    • Rhine Franconian: Gras

      Frankfurterisch: [kʀɑːs], (older) [kʀɔːs]

      Pennsylvania German: Graas

    • Yiddish: גראָז (groz)