Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hrinþ

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 *hrinþaz.

Noun

*hrinþ n[1]

head of cattle

Inflection

z-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hrinþ
Genitive	*hrinþiʀi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hrinþ	*hrinþiʀu
Accusative	*hrinþ	*hrinþiʀu
Genitive	*hrinþiʀi	*hrinþiʀō
Dative	*hrinþiʀi	*hrinþiʀum
Instrumental	*hrinþiʀi	*hrinþiʀum

Descendants

Old English: hrīþ; hrīþer
- Middle English: rither
Old Frisian: hrīther
- North Frisian: ridder
- West Frisian: rier
Old Saxon: hrīth, *hrinth, *hrind
- Middle Low German: rint
  - Low German: Rind
Old Dutch: hrind, rind (in placenames)
- Middle Dutch: rint, rent
Old High German: rind, hrind
- Middle High German: rint
  - Alemannic German: Rind
  - Central Franconian: Rend, Renk
  - German: Rind
  - Hunsrik: Rind
  - Luxembourgish: Rand
  - Vilamovian: rynd

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118: “*hrinþ”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118: “*hrinþ”