Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/habbjō

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/habbjō

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

Alternative forms

• *haffjō, *habuz, *hafuz, *haffju

Etymology

From *habbjan (“to lift, raise”) +‎ *-ō.[1]

Noun

*habbjō m[1]

1. barm, yeast

   Synonyms: *bermō, *jestu

Declension

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*habbjō
Genitive	*habbjini, *habbjan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*habbjō	*habbjan
Accusative	*habbjan	*habbjan
Genitive	*habbjini, *habbjan	*habbjanō
Dative	*habbjini, *habbjan	*habbjum
Instrumental	*habbjini, *habbjan	*habbjum

Descendants

• Old English: hæf, hæfe, hefe
• Old Saxon: *hebbio, *heffio
  • Middle Low German: hebben, heffen
• Old Dutch: *hebbo, *heffo, *hevo
  • Middle Dutch: heffe, hēve
    • Dutch: hef
• Old High German: hevo, heffa, heffe, hephe, heve; heffen, hefun, hephen
  • Middle High German: heve, hefe; hebe, hefe; hepfen
    • Alemannic German: Hebi
    • German: Hefe
    • Hunsrik: Heb
    • Luxembourgish: Hief
    • Yiddish: הייוון‎ (heyvn)

References

1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Hefe”, 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 29: “wg. *haf-jön”