Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mānōþ

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

From Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs.

Noun

*mānōþ m[1]

month

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: mōnaþ, mōnað
- Middle English: moneth, month, monþ, moneþ, monæþ
  - English: month
  - Scots: moneth
Old Frisian: mōnath
- North Frisian: muunt
- Saterland Frisian: Mound
- West Frisian: moanne
Old Saxon: mānuth
- Middle Low German: mānet, mānt
  - Low German: Maand (Northern Germany), Maond (Westphalia)
  - Plautdietsch: Moonat
Old Dutch: *mānoth
- Middle Dutch: mānet, maent
  - Dutch: maand
    - Afrikaans: maand
Old High German: mānōd
- Middle High German: mānōt
  - Cimbrian: maanont
  - German: Monat
    - → Yiddish: מאָנאַט‎ (monat)
  - Luxembourgish: Mount

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57: “*mānōþ”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57: “*mānōþ”