Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sterbō

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *sterbô.

Noun edit

*sterbō m^[1]^[2]

death, plague

Inflection edit

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sterbō
Genitive	stirbini, sterban
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sterbō	*sterban
Accusative	*sterban	*sterban
Genitive	stirbini, sterban	*sterbanō
Dative	stirbini, sterban	*sterbum
Instrumental	stirbini, sterban	*sterbum

Descendants edit

Old English: steorfa
- Middle English: steorve, steorfa, storve, sterve (early)
Old Saxon: *stervo
- Middle Low German: sterve, starve
Old High German: sterbo
- Middle High German: sterbe

References edit

^ “starve, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*sterƀōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 375

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