Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/alahsinā

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

Presumably borrowed from Latin aloxinum[1], if not the other way around, or possibly from *alh (“protection; temple”)[2] or *algōn (“to defend, protect”) +‎ *sinn (“sense, perception”) +‎ *-jā for its alleged mental curative properties, compare *warjamōdā (“wormwood”), perhaps from *warjan (“to defend againt”) +‎ *mōd (“mind, sense”).

Noun

*alahsinā f

wormwood
Synonym: *warjamōdā

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*alahsinā
Genitive	*alahsinōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*alahsinā	*alahsinōn
Accusative	*alahsinōn	*alahsinōn
Genitive	*alahsinōn	*alahsinōnō
Dative	*alahsinōn	*alahsinōm
Instrumental	*alahsinōn	*alahsinōm

Related terms

*alahsan (< Latin aloxanus, alosanus)
- Old High German: alahsan m

Descendants

Old Saxon: *alasina
- Middle Low German: alsen, alsene
  - German Low German:
    Westmünsterländisch: Als, Alsen, Alsten, Alpsen
Old Dutch: *alasina
- Middle Dutch: alsene
  - Dutch: alsem, alsene, alsine, alsen, alssen
    - Afrikaans: alsem
    - → West Frisian: alsem
    - → Japanese: アルセム (arusemu)
Old High German: alahsna, alesina
- Middle High German: alsen, alsene
  - German: Alsem
  - Luxembourgish: Alzem
→? Medieval Latin: aloxinum, aloxanum, aloxmum, aloxanus, alosanus (see there for further descendants)

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Alsem”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 22
Franck, Johannes (1892), “alsem”, in Etymologisch woordenboek der nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), The Hague: 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Alsem”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 22

[2] Franck, Johannes (1892), “alsem”, in Etymologisch woordenboek der nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), The Hague: 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff