< Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mōtan
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *mōtaną.
Verb
*mōtan
- to be allowed, to be permitted to, may
Inflection
*mōt, *mōst, *mōtun, *mōsā, *mōsan
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Old English: mōtan
- Middle English: moten
- Scots: mote, mot, moit
- English: mote
- ⇒ Old English: mōste (preterite)
- Middle English: moste
- Scots: moste, most, moist
- English: must
- Middle English: moste
- Middle English: moten
- Old Frisian: mōt (present tense)
- Old Saxon: mōtan
- Middle Low German: môten, moste (past)
- German Low German: möten
- → Old Swedish: most (late)
- Swedish: måste
- Middle Low German: môten, moste (past)
- Old Dutch: muotan
- Middle Dutch: moeten
- Dutch: moeten
- Afrikaans: moet
- → Sranan Tongo: moe
- Limburgish: mótte
- Dutch: moeten
- Middle Dutch: moeten
- Old High German: muozan
- Middle High German: muozen, müezen
- Alemannic German: müese, müesse
- Bavarian: miassn
- Cimbrian: missan
- Central Franconian: mösse, mosse, moße
- Hunsrik: misse
- Luxembourgish: mussen
- German: müssen
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: misse
- Yiddish: מוזן (muzn)
- Middle High German: muozen, müezen