Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/swā
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *swa.
Adverb
edit*swā[1]
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *swē.
Adverb
edit*swā
Descendants
edit- Old English: swā
- Old Frisian: sā
- West Frisian: sa
- Old Saxon: sō
- Old Dutch: sō
- Old High German: sō
- German: so
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65: “PWGmc *swā”