Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/altāri

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

Borrowed from Latin altārium (“altar”).

Noun

*altāri m

altar

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*altāri
Genitive	*altārjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*altāri	altārjō, altārjōs
Accusative	*altāri	*altārjā
Genitive	*altārjas	*altārjō
Dative	*altārjē	*altārjum
Instrumental	*altārju	*altārjum

Descendants

Old English: alter, altar
- Middle English: alter
  - English: altar
    - → Maori: āta
  - Scots: altar
Old Frisian: altare, alter
- West Frisian: alter
Old Saxon: altāri
- Middle Low German: altār, alter, oltar, olter, altāre
- → Old Norse: altari
  - Icelandic: altari
  - Faroese: altar
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: altar; (dialectal) altari
  - Old Swedish: altari
    - Swedish: altare
    - → Finnish: alttari
  - Danish: alter
    - Norwegian Bokmål: alter
Old Dutch: *altāri
- Middle Dutch: altare
  - Dutch: altaar
    - Afrikaans: altaar
    - Negerhollands: altar
    - → Indonesian: altar
    - → Sranan Tongo: altari
  - Limburgish: alter
Old High German: altāri
- Middle High German: alter, altære
  - Cimbrian: altar
  - German: Altar
  - Luxembourgish: Altor
- → Old Church Slavonic: олътарь (olŭtarĭ) (see there for further descendants)