Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/salbu

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 *salbō.

Noun

*salbu f

1. salve, ointment

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*salbu
Genitive	*salbā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*salbu	*salbō
Accusative	*salbā	*salbā
Genitive	*salbā	*salbō
Dative	*salbē	*salbōm, *salbum
Instrumental	*salbu	*salbōm, *salbum

Derived terms

• *salbōn

Descendants

• Old English: sealf
  • Middle English: salve, salf, salfe, salff, salffe, salwe, selve; scealfe, sealfe, sealve; sallfe
    • English: salve
    • Scots: saw
• Old Frisian: *salf; *salve (suggested by derivative salva)
  • West Frisian: salve
• Old Saxon: salva
  • Middle Low German: salve
    • → Old Swedish: salva
      • Swedish: salva
    • → Danish: salve
      • → Icelandic: salvi
      • → Faroese: salva, sálva
• Old Dutch: salba, salva
  • Middle Dutch: salve
    • Dutch: zalf
      • Afrikaans: salf
      • Negerhollands: salv
      • → Caribbean Javanese: salep
      • → Indonesian: salep
• Old High German: salba
  • Middle High German: salp
    • German: Salbe
    • Hunsrik: Salleb
    • Luxembourgish: Sallef
    • Yiddish: זאַלב (zalb)