Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/saipā

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 *saipǭ.

Noun

*saipā f[1]

soap

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*saipā
Genitive	*saipōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*saipā	*saipōn
Accusative	*saipōn	*saipōn
Genitive	*saipōn	*saipōnō
Dative	*saipōn	*saipōm
Instrumental	*saipōn	*saipōm

Descendants

Old English: sāpe
- Middle English: sope, sape
  - English: soap (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: saip, sape
  - → Middle Irish: sóp
  - → Old Norse: sápa
    - Icelandic: sápa
    - Faroese: sápa
    - Norwegian: såpe
    - Old Swedish: sāpa
      - Swedish: såpa
        → Finnish: suopa, soopa
Old Frisian: *sēpe
- Saterland Frisian: Seepe
- West Frisian: sjippe
Old Saxon: *sēpa
- Middle Low German: sēpe, seipe
  - German Low German: Seep
  - Dutch Low Saxon: ziepe, zaip, zaipe, zeeip, zepe, zeip, ziep, zaibe, zeep
  - → Estonian: seep
  - → Danish: sæbe
  - → Latvian: ziepes
Old Dutch: *sēpa, *seipa
- Middle Dutch: sêpe, seipe
  - Dutch: zeep
    - Afrikaans: seep
      - → Xhosa: isepha
      - → Zulu: insipho
  - Limburgish: zeip
Old High German: seipfa, seiffa, seifa
- Middle High German: seife
  - German: Seife, Seipfe
  - Bavarian: Soaffa, Soaf, safe
  - Luxembourgish: Seef
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Seef
  - Vilamovian: zaof
  - Yiddish: זייף‎ (zeyf)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *saipā”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *saipā”