Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sparwō
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *sparwô.
Noun
edit*sparwō m[1]
Inflection
editMasculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *sparwō | |
Genitive | *sparwini, *sparwan | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *sparwō | *sparwan |
Accusative | *sparwan | *sparwan |
Genitive | *sparwini, *sparwan | *sparwanō |
Dative | *sparwini, *sparwan | *sparwum |
Instrumental | *sparwini, *sparwan | *sparwum |
Descendants
edit- Old English: spearwa
- Old Saxon: *sparo; *sperling
- Middle Low German: sperlink
- Old High German: sparo
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180: “PWGmc *sparwō”