Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dōn

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

From Proto-Germanic *dōną.

Verb

*dōn[1]

to do
to put, to place

Inflection

*dōþi, *dedā, *dādun, *dān

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: dōn
- Middle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon
  - Scots: dae
  - English: do
  - Northumbrian: dee
Old Frisian: dwā, dwān, duān, duā, dūa
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: du
  Mooring: düünj
- Saterland Frisian: dwo
- West Frisian: dwaan
Old Saxon: dōn, doan, dūan, duon
- Middle Low German: dôn
  - Low German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon
Old Dutch: duon
- Middle Dutch: doen
  - Dutch: doen
    - Afrikaans: doen
  - Limburgish: doon
Old High German: tuon, duon, duan
- Middle High German: tuon
  - Alemannic German: tue, due, tuä
    Swabian: dua, doa
  - Bavarian: doa
    Cimbrian: tüan, tüunan
  - Central Franconian: donn, don, dun
    Kölsch: dunn
  - German: tun
  - Luxembourgish: doen, dinn, dunn
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: duh
  - Yiddish: טאָן‎ (ton)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*dōn”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*dōn”