Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mōrubaʀi

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 Latin mōrus (“mulberry, blackberry”) +‎ *baʀi (“berry”).

Noun

*mōrubaʀi n

1. mulberry

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mōrubaʀi
Genitive	*mōrubaʀjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mōrubaʀi	*mōrubaʀju
Accusative	*mōrubaʀi	*mōrubaʀju
Genitive	*mōrubaʀjas	*mōrubaʀjō
Dative	*mōrubaʀjē	*mōrubaʀjum
Instrumental	*mōrubaʀju	*mōrubaʀjum

Descendants

• Old English: mōrberġe, mōrberie, mōrberiġe
  • Middle English: mulbery, molbery, mulberie, mulbere
    • English: mulberry
• Old Saxon: mulberi
  • Middle Low German: mûlbêre, môlbêre
    • German Low German: Muulbeer
    • Plautdietsch: Mulbäa
    • → Danish: morbær
      • → Icelandic: mórber
      • → Faroese: morber
    • → Norwegian: morbær
    • → Swedish: mullbär
      • → Finnish: mulperi
• Old Dutch: *mōrberi
  • Middle Dutch: moerbeye, moerbesie
    • Dutch: moerbei
      • Afrikaans: moerbei
      • → Indonesian: murbei
      • → Malay: murbei
      • → West Frisian: moerbei
• Old High German: mūrberi, mōrberi, mōrber
  • Middle High German: mūlber
    • German: Maulbeere
    • Hunsrik: Maulbeer