Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kampijō

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

Borrowed from Latin campiō.

Noun

*kampijō m[1]

combat soldier

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kampijō
Genitive	*kampijini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kampijō	*kampijan
Accusative	*kampijan	*kampijan
Genitive	*kampijini	*kampijanō
Dative	*kampijini	*kampijum
Instrumental	*kampijini	*kampijum

Related terms

*kampijan
*kampōn

Descendants

Old English: cempa
- Middle English: kempe
  - Scots: kemp
  - English: kemp (obsolete)
Old Frisian: kempa
Old Saxon: kempio
- Middle Low German: kempe
  - → Danish: kjæmpe, kæmpe
  - → Faroese: kempa
  - → Swedish: kämpe
  - → Icelandic: kempa
  - → German: Kämpe
Old Dutch: *kempo
- Middle Dutch: kempe
Old High German: kemphio, chemphio, kempho, chempho
- Middle High German: kempfe
  - German: Kämpfe

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kampijō”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kampijō”