Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hreuwu

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 *hrewwō.

Noun

*hreuwu f[1]

regret

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hreuwu	*hreuwō
Accusative	*hreuwā	*hreuwā
Genitive	*hreuwā	*hreuwō
Dative	*hreuwē	*hreuwōm
Instrumental	*hreuwu	*hreuwōm

Derived terms

*hriuwisōn

Descendants

Old English: hrēow
- Middle English: reowe, rewe
  - Scots: rew
  - English: rue
Old Frisian: hrīowe
- West Frisian: rouwe
Old Saxon: hreuwa
- Middle Low German: ruwe, rouwe
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: ruelse
Old Dutch: *reuwa
- Middle Dutch: ruwe, rouwe
  - Dutch: rouw
Old High German: hriuwa, riuwa
- Middle High German: riuwe
  - German: Reue
  - Hunsrik: Rei
  - Luxembourgish: Rei

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130: “PWGmc *hreuwu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130: “PWGmc *hreuwu”