Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mespilā

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 mespila, mespilum.

Noun

*mespilā f

medlar

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mespilā
Genitive	*mespilōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mespilā	*mespilōn
Accusative	*mespilōn	*mespilōn
Genitive	*mespilōn	*mespilōnō
Dative	*mespilōn	*mespilōm
Instrumental	*mespilōn	*mespilōm

Derived terms

*mespilabaum

Descendants

Old English: *mespile
- Middle English: mespile
  - English: mesple
Old Saxon: mispela
- Middle Low German: mispel, mispele
  - German Low German: Mispel
  - → Danish: mispel
  - → Finnish: mispeli
Old Dutch: *mespila, *mispila
- Middle Dutch: mespele, mispel
  - Dutch: mispel
    - Afrikaans: mispel
Old High German: mespila, mespil, nespila, nespil, mispila
- Middle High German: mispel, mëspel, nëspel, mëstel, mistel
  - German: Mispel, Mißpel, Mespel, Meßpel
  - → Old Czech: mišpile, mišpule, nyšpule
    - Czech: mišpule, older often nyšpule
  - → Hungarian: naspolya, formerly by region náspolya, naszpolya, nászpolya, noszpolya. lasponya, lásponya, miszpulya, nespolya
  - (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) → Polish: myszpuła, nieszpuł, nieszpuła, nieszpułka, nieszplik, niespuł, niesplik, nieśplik, niosplik, nesplik, nespul, mespuł, mespul, mesplik, mespil [from 15^th c.; all of these variants appear to have reached 1800, but now one prescribes nieszpułka and nieśplik]
  - → Slovak: mišpuľa, dialectally nyšpuľa, nešpuľa
  - → Lower Sorbian: hušpula, rušpula
  - → Upper Sorbian: nyšpula, nyšpla, nyspla, myšpla
- → Serbo-Croatian: nȅšpula, nȅšpola, mešpula, nespula, nespola, nješpula
- → Slovene: nẹ̑šplja