Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/jā
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *ja.
Particle edit
*jā[1]
Descendants edit
- Old English: ġēa, iā; ġē
- Old Frisian: jē, gē; jā, jē, jō
- Old Saxon: jā, giā; ge, gi, gie, gia
- Old Dutch: jā
- Old High German: jā; joh, ioh
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 216: “PWGmc *jā”