Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kolbō

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

Etymology

From *kolb +‎ *-ō (agentive suffix).

Noun

*kolbō m

club, mallet
bulb, cob

Declension

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kolbō
Genitive	kolbini, kolban
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kolbō	*kolban
Accusative	*kolban	*kolban
Genitive	kolbini, kolban	*kolbanō
Dative	kolbini, kolban	*kolbum
Instrumental	kolbini, kolban	*kolbum

Descendants

Old Dutch: *kolbo
- Middle Dutch: colve
  - Dutch: kolf
    - Afrikaans: kolf
    - → Indonesian: kolf
  - Limburgish: kolf
  - → Middle Scots: golf, gouff
    - Scots: gowf, gowff
    - → English: golf
Old Saxon: kolƀo
- Middle Low German: colve
  - → Saterland Frisian: kolwe
Old High German: kolbo, cholpo
- Middle High German: kolbe
  - Alemannic German: Cholbe, Cholpe
  - Bavarian: Koim, Koibm
  - Central Franconian: Kolf, Kolwe
    Hunsrik: Kolve
  - German: Kolben
    - → Luxembourgish: Kolben
  - Luxembourgish: Kollef, Kolf
  - Rhine Franconian: Kolwe
    Pennsylvania German: Kolwe

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kulba(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309