Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/obaet
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *ubetą or *ubatją, from *uba- + *etaną (“to eat”)[1] or *atjaną (“to cause to eat; to pasture, graze”), respectively, compare *fraetan (“to devour, consume”). Presumably related to Proto-Slavic *ovoťe (“fruit”).
Noun edit
*obaet n
Inflection edit
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *obaet | |
Genitive | *obaetas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *obaet | *obaetu |
Accusative | *obaet | *obaetu |
Genitive | *obaetas | *obaetō |
Dative | *obaetē | *obaetum |
Instrumental | *obaetu | *obaetum |
Alternative reconstructions edit
- *obaati
Descendants edit
- Old English: ofett, ofet, ofæt, obet
- Old Frisian: *ovet
- West Frisian: oefte
- Old Saxon: *ovet
- Old Dutch: ovit
- Old High German: obaz, obez
- Middle High German: obez, obz
- Alemannic German: Obs
- Swabian: Obschd
- Bavarian: Obs, Obscht, Obst
- Mòcheno: ouvest
- Central Franconian: Obs, Obst, Ofs, Ubst, Uebst, Uebscht, Ust
- Kölsch: Obs
- German: Obst, Obs (dialectal)
- → German Low German: Obst
- Hunsrik: Oobst
- Luxembourgish: Uebst
- Pennsylvania German: Obscht
- Rhine Franconian: Uebst
- Yiddish: אויפּס (oyps), אויבס (oybs)
- Alemannic German: Obs
- Middle High German: obez, obz
- →? Proto-Slavic: *ovoťe
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Obst”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 512: “*uba-ǣtaz”