Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ahsu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ahsō.

Noun

*ahsu f[1]

axle

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*ahsu
Genitive	*ahsā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*ahsu	*ahsō
Accusative	*ahsā	*ahsā
Genitive	*ahsā	*ahsō
Dative	*ahsē	ahsōm, ahsum
Instrumental	*ahsu	ahsōm, ahsum

Descendants

Old English: eax
Old Frisian: *ax
- West Frisian: as
Old Saxon: ahsa
Old Dutch: *assa
- Middle Dutch: asse
  - Dutch: as
    - Afrikaans: as
    - Negerhollands: az
    - → Indonesian: as
    - → Papiamentu: as (dated)
Old High German: ahsa
- Middle High German: ahse
  - Alemannic German: Uechs
  - German: Achse
    - → Norwegian Bokmål: akse
  - Luxembourgish: Achs

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *ahsu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *ahsu”