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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/watōr
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɑ.tɔːr/
Noun
*watōr n
- water
Inflection
The original heteroclitic alternation of r/n was preserved. The plural forms preserve the zero-grade forms of the suffix, and are like those of a neuter a-stem noun.
heteroclitic, irregularDeclension of *watōr (heteroclitic, irregular) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *watōr | *watnō | |
vocative | *watōr | *watnō | |
accusative | *watōr | *watnō | |
genitive | *watiniz | *watnǫ̂ | |
dative | *watini | *watnamaz | |
instrumental | *watinē | *watnamiz |
Derived terms
- *watrijaną
- *watrōną
- *watnōną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *watar
- Old English: wæter, water
- Middle English: water, watere, watir, waterre
- English: water (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: watter
- Yola: waudher, wadher
- Middle English: water, watere, watir, waterre
- Old Frisian: weter, water, wetir
- North Frisian: weeter, woar, waer, waar
- Föhr-Amrum: weeder
- Mooring: wååder
- Saterland Frisian: Woater
- West Frisian: wetter
- North Frisian: weeter, woar, waer, waar
- Old Saxon: watar
- Middle Low German: wāter
- Dutch Low Saxon: water (Drents, Twents)
- Low German: Water
- Plautdietsch: Wota
- Middle Low German: wāter
- Old Dutch: watar, watir, uuatar, uuatir
- Middle Dutch: wāter
- Dutch: water
- Afrikaans: water
- Javindo: water
- Negerhollands: watu, water, water, waeter
- Petjo: watter
- Skepi Creole Dutch: water
- → Sinhalese: වතුර (watura)
- →? Sranan Tongo: watra
- → Aukan: wataa
- → Saramaccan: wáta
- Limburgish: water
- West Flemish: woater
- Dutch: water
- Middle Dutch: wāter
- Old High German: wazzar, wazar, wazzer, waszer
- Middle High German: waȥȥer
- Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser
- Alsatian: Wasser, Wâsser, Wàser
- Italian Walser: wasser, wàsser
- Bavarian: Wossa
- Cimbrian: bassar, bazzar
- Gottscheerish: boßər, bàsser
- Mòcheno: bòsser
- Udinese: bosser, bosar, bòsser
- Central Franconian: Wasser, Waßer
- Hunsrik: Wasser, waser
- Transylvanian Saxon: Wåsser
- East Central German:
- Silesian German: Woasser, Wosser, Wasser
- Upper Saxon: Wassor
- German: Wasser
- Unserdeutsch: Wasser
- Luxembourgish: Waasser
- Rhine Franconian: Wasser
- Hessian: Wassä
- Pennsylvania German: Wasser
- Vilamovian: wosser, woser
- Yiddish: וואַסער (vaser)
- Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser
- Middle High German: waȥȥer
- Old English: wæter, water
- Old Norse: vatn
- Icelandic: vatn
- Faroese: vatn
- Norn: vatn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vatn, vats-, vass- (e.g. in vassbasert)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: vatn, vass-
- Elfdalian: wattn
- Westrobothnian: vâtn
- Old Swedish: vatn, vatu-
- Swedish: vatten, vattu- (e.g. in Vattumannen)
- Old Danish: watn, wan, wand
- Danish: vand
- Norwegian Bokmål: vann
- Danish: vand
- Scanian: vann
- Gutnish: vattn
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍄𐍉 (watō)
Further reading
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197