< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/was
Proto-Germanic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɑs/
Verb
*was
- first/third-person singular past active indicative of *wesaną
Descendants
- Old English: wæs, wes, was
- Middle English: was
- English: was
- Scots: was, wis
- Yola: waas, was, waz, 'as, as
- Middle English: was
- Old Frisian: was
- North Frisian: wus, waos
- Saterland Frisian: waas
- West Frisian: was
- Old Saxon: was
- Middle Low German: was
- Dutch Low Saxon: was
- German Low German: was
- Plautdietsch: was
- Middle Low German: was
- Old Dutch: was
- Dutch: was
- Afrikaans: was
- Limburgish: waas
- Dutch: was
- Proto-Norse: ᚹᚨᛊ (was)
- Old Norse: vas (early), var (-s replaced with -r by analogy to other inflections) (see there for further descendants)
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃 (was)