Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skap

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 *skapą.

Noun

*skap n

shape

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skap
Genitive	*skapas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skap	*skapu
Accusative	*skap	*skapu
Genitive	*skapas	*skapō
Dative	*skapē	*skapum
Instrumental	*skapu	*skapum

Derived terms

*skapōn

Related terms

*skappjan

Descendants

Old English: sceap, ġesceap
- Middle English: shap, schape
  - English: shape
Old Frisian: skep
- North Frisian: schååp
Old Saxon: skap
- Middle Low German: schap
  - Low German: Schapp
    - → German: Schapp
  - Plautdietsch: Schaup
  - → Old Norse: skáp (late)
    - Icelandic: skápur
    - Faroese: skáp
    - Old Danish: skap, skaap
      - Danish: skab
    - Norwegian:
      - Norwegian Bokmål: skap
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: skap, skåp
    - Old Swedish: skap, skāp
      - Swedish: skåp
      - → Finnish: kaappi
      - → Ingrian: kaappi
      - → Votic: kaappi
  - → Estonian: kapp
  - → Latvian: skapis
Old Dutch: *skap
- Middle Dutch: schap
  - Dutch: schap
Old High German: scaf
- Middle High German: schaf
  - Central Franconian: Schaf
    - Luxembourgish: Schaf
  - German: Schaff
  - → Polish: szafa
    - → Belarusian: ша́фа (šáfa)
    - → Ukrainian: ша́фа (šáfa)
    - → Yiddish: שאַפֿע (shafe)
  - → Russian: шкаф (škaf) (see there for further descendants)
  - → Bulgarian: шкаф (škaf)
  - → Serbo-Croatian: шкаф
- Italo-Romance:
  - → Italian: scaffa
  - → Sicilian: scaffa
    - → Maltese: xkaffa