Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kolbō

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 *kolb +‎ *-ō (agentive suffix).

Noun

*kolbō m

1. club, mallet
2. bulb, cob

Declension

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kolbō
Genitive	*kulbini, *kolban
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kolbō	*kolban
Accusative	*kolban	*kolban
Genitive	*kulbini, *kolban	*kolbanō
Dative	*kulbini, *kolban	*kolbum
Instrumental	*kulbini, *kolban	*kolbum

Descendants

• Old Dutch: *kolbo
  • Middle Dutch: colve
    • Dutch: kolf
      • Afrikaans: kolf
      • → Indonesian: kolf
    • Limburgish: kolf
    • → Middle Scots: golf, gouff
      • Scots: gowf, gowff
      • → English: golf
• Old Saxon: kolƀo
  • Middle Low German: colve
    • → Saterland Frisian: kolwe
• Old High German: kolbo, cholpo
  • Middle High German: kolbe
    • Alemannic German: Cholbe, Cholpe
    • Bavarian: Koim, Koibm
    • Central Franconian: Kolf, Kolwe

      Hunsrik: Kolve

    • German: Kolben
      • → Luxembourgish: Kolben
    • Luxembourgish: Kollef, Kolf
    • Rhine Franconian: Kolwe

      Pennsylvania German: Kolwe

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kulba(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309