Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/korb

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

Uncertain; likely borrowed from Latin corbis (“basket”), itself of uncertain origin[1] but alternatively suggested to be from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, leveled from *krebô[2] ~ *kurpaz (“basket”),[3] and sharing the same ultimate origin as the Latin.

Noun

*korb m

basket
Synonyms: *maisu, *mandu, *tainijā

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*korb
Genitive	*korbas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*korb	korbō, korbōs
Accusative	*korb	*korbā
Genitive	*korbas	*korbō
Dative	*korbē	*korbum
Instrumental	*korbu	*korbum

Descendants

Old Frisian: korf, kōr
- Saterland Frisian: Kuurich, Kouerch
- West Frisian: koer
Old Saxon: *korf
- Middle Low German: korf
  - German Low German:
    Altmärkisch, East Frisian Low Saxon, Westphalian (Bentheimisch, Lippisch): Korf
    Westphalian:
    Dortmundisch: Koặrf
    Ravensbergisch, Sauerländisch: Kuarf
    Westmünsterländisch: Korw
    Sauerländisch: Koarf (Niedersfeld), Kōerf (Wenden)
  - Plautdietsch: Korf
  - → Middle English: corf (or from Middle Dutch)
    - English: corf
    - Scots: corffe, corf
  - → Old Norse: kǫrf m, karfa f[2]
    - Icelandic: korf m, karfa f
    - Faroese: kurv
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: korg, korv
      - → Norwegian Bokmål: korg
    - Old Swedish: korgher
      - Swedish: korg
        → Finnish: kori
    - Old Danish: korgh, korf
      - Danish: kurv
        Norwegian Bokmål: kurv
    - Westrobothnian: kåri, kårg, körj
- → Old Saxon: fugalkorf
- → Old Saxon: korvilīn
Old Dutch: *korf
- Middle Dutch: corf
  - Dutch: korf
    - Afrikaans: korf
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: korfu
  - Limburgish: korf
Old High German: korb, chorb, chorp m; (northwestern) corf
- Middle High German: korp, korb m, korbe, kürbe f; korf
  - Bavarian: Koab m, Kiabn, Kiam f
    - Mòcheno: khorb m
  - Central Franconian: Korv, Körv m
    - Hunsrik: Korreb m
    - Luxembourgish: Kuerf m
  - German: Korb m, (obsolete) Kürbe f
  - Vilamovian: kiüb m
→? Proto-Slavic: *kȏrbъ

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Korb”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 404
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kreban- ~ *kruppan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 303
Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎, Leiden: Leiden University, page 15

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Korb”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 404

[EDPG-2] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kreban- ~ *kruppan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 303

[3] Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009) Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems (PhD thesis)‎, Leiden: Leiden University, page 15