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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nabō
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *h₃nobʰeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“nave, hub”). Cognate with Latvian naba (“navel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɑ.βɔː/
Noun
*nabō f
- nave, hub
Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *nabō (ō-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *nabō | *nabôz | |
vocative | *nabō | *nabôz | |
accusative | *nabǭ | *nabōz | |
genitive | *nabōz | *nabǫ̂ | |
dative | *nabōi | *nabōmaz | |
instrumental | *nabō | *nabōmiz |
Derived terms
- *nabōgaizaz
Related terms
- *ambô
- *nablô
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *nabu
- Old English: nafu
- Middle English: nave, nawe; naf, naff, naffe
- English: nave
- Scots: naff
- Middle English: nave, nawe; naf, naff, naffe
- Old Frisian: *nave
- West Frisian: nauwe
- Old Saxon: nava
- Middle Low German: nāve
- Old Dutch: *nava
- Middle Dutch: nāve
- Dutch: naaf
- Middle Dutch: nāve
- Old High German: naba
- Middle High German: nabe
- German: Nabe
- Luxembourgish: Nuef
- Middle High German: nabe
- Old English: nafu
- Proto-Norse: ᚾᚨᛒᛟᛉ (naboʀ, genitive singular)
- Old Norse: nǫf
- Icelandic: nöf
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nav
- Norwegian Bokmål: nav
- Danish: nav
- Old Swedish: naf
- Swedish: nav
- Old Norse: nǫf
- →? Proto-Finnic: *napa (or from Baltic)
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN