Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wurti
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wrōts.
Noun
edit*wurti m[1]
Inflection
editi-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *wurti | |
Genitive | *wurtī | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *wurti | *wurtī |
Accusative | *wurti | *wurtī |
Genitive | *wurtī | *wurtijō |
Dative | *wurtī | *wurtim, *wurtijum |
Instrumental | *wurtī | *wurtim, *wurtijum |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Old English: wyrt (“plant, herb”)
- Old English: wyrt (“brewer's wort”) (merged with descendant of *wurtiju)
- Old Saxon: wurt
- Old Dutch: wurt
- Middle Dutch: worte
- Old High German: wurz
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 287: “PWGmc *wurti”