Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/klāu

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 *klēwō.

Noun

*klāu f[1]

claw

Inflection

Feminine wō-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*klāu	*klāwō
Accusative	*klāwā	*klāwā
Genitive	*klāwā	*klāwō
Dative	*klāwē	*klāwōm
Instrumental	*klāu	*klāwōm

Descendants

Old English: clēa, clāwu
Old Frisian: klē, klēwe
Old Saxon: clāwa
- Middle Low German: klauwe
Old Dutch: clāwa, *clā
- Middle Dutch: clauwe, cla
  - Dutch: klauw
    - Afrikaans: klou
Old High German: klāwa
- Middle High German: klāwe
  - German: Klaue
  - Luxembourgish: Klo

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 150: “PWGmc *klāu, pl. *klāwō”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 150: “PWGmc *klāu, pl. *klāwō”