Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mānō

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 Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun

*mānō m[1]

moon

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mānō
Genitive	mānini, mānan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mānō	*mānan
Accusative	*mānan	*mānan
Genitive	mānini, mānan	*mānanō
Dative	mānini, mānan	*mānum
Instrumental	mānini, mānan	*mānum

Derived terms

*mānini dag

Descendants

Old English: mōna, mōne
- Middle English: mone, moone, mon, moyn, monæ, mona
  - English: moon
    - Sranan Tongo: mun
    - Tok Pisin: mun
    - Torres Strait Creole: mun
  - Scots: muin, mone, monne, moon, moune, mowne, moyn, moyne, mune, mwne
  - Yola: mond
Old Frisian: mōna
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: muun
  Mooring: moune
- Saterland Frisian: Moune
- West Frisian: moanne
Old Saxon: māno
- Middle Low German: māne
  - → Polabian: mon
Old Dutch: māno
- Middle Dutch: mâne
  - Dutch: maan
    - Afrikaans: maan
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: manti
    - Jersey Dutch: mân, môn
    - Negerhollands: maand, man, maen
    - → Aukan: manti
  - Limburgish: maon
  - West Flemish: moane
  - Zealandic: maene, maone
Old High German: māno
- Middle High German: māne, mān, mōne, mōn
  - Alemannic German: Maan, manä, meini, moanu, Mond, manòd, mànund
    Swabian: Moo, Mao
  - Bavarian: Mou, mone
    Cimbrian: maano, ma, må
    Mòcheno: mu'
  - Central Franconian: Mond, Muund
  - German: Mond
  - Luxembourgish: Mound
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Muhn
  - Vilamovian: mönd

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 300: “PWGmc *mēnō”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 300: “PWGmc *mēnō”