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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/maʀg
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *mazgą.
Noun
*maʀg n[1]
- marrow
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *maʀg | |
Genitive | *maʀgas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *maʀg | *maʀgu |
Accusative | *maʀg | *maʀgu |
Genitive | *maʀgas | *maʀgō |
Dative | *maʀgē | *maʀgum |
Instrumental | *maʀgu | *maʀgum |
Descendants
- Old English: mærh, mearh, mearg
- Middle English: mary, marow, marowe, marowȝ
- English: marrow
- Scots: merch, mery, mairch
- Middle English: mary, marow, marowe, marowȝ
- Old Frisian: *march, merch, merg
- West Frisian: murch, march, moarch
- Old Saxon: marg
- Middle Low German: marg
- Old Dutch: marg
- Middle Dutch: march, merch
- Dutch: merg
- Afrikaans: murg
- Dutch: merg
- Middle Dutch: march, merch
- Old High German: marg
- Middle High German: marc, march
- Central Franconian: Märch, March
- German: Mark
- → Saterland Frisian: Maak
- Luxembourgish: Muerch
- Vilamovian: miök
- Yiddish: מאַרך (markh)
- Middle High German: marc, march
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 313: “PWGmc *mazg”