Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/baum

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/baum

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz.

Noun

*baum m[1]

1. tree
2. beam

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*baum
Genitive	*baumas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*baum	*baumō, *baumōs
Accusative	*baum	*baumā
Genitive	*baumas	*baumō
Dative	*baumē	*baumum
Instrumental	*baumu	*baumum

Descendants

• Old English: bēam
  • Middle English: beem
    • Scots: beme
    • English: beam
      • → German: beamen
      • → Japanese: ビーム
• Old Frisian: bām
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum & Mooring: buum

    Helgoland: Booam

    Sylt: boom

  • Saterland Frisian: Boom
  • West Frisian: beam
• Old Saxon: bōm
  • Middle Low German: bôm
    • German Low German: Boom
    • Plautdietsch: Boom
    • → Danish: bom
    • → Finnish: puomi
    • → Gutnish: bom
    • → Norwegian: bom
    • → Swedish: bom
• Old Dutch: bōm
  • Middle Dutch: bôom
    • Dutch: boom
    • Limburgish: boum
• Old High German: boum, poum, paum
  • Middle High German: boum
    • Alemannic German: Baaum, Bum, Baim, Baum, Boum

      Swabian: Boum, Boom

      Walser: böim, baum, bem

    • Bavarian: Bam, paam, pame

      Cimbrian: puam, póom, pome

      Mòcheno: pa'm

    • Central Franconian: Boom, Baam, Baum, Boum

      Hunsrik: Baam

      Luxembourgish: Bam

      Transylvanian Saxon: bum

    • East Central German:

      Erzgebirgisch: Baam

      Upper Saxon: Boom, Baam

      Vilamovian: baojm, boum

    • East Franconian: Baam, Bääm
    • German: Baum
    • Rhine Franconian: Baam

      Pennsylvania German: Baam

      Palatine German: Baam

    • Yiddish: בוים‎ (boym)

References

1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*baum”