Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/salbu

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 *salbō.

Noun

*salbu f[1]

salve, ointment

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*salbu
Genitive	*salbā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*salbu	*salbō
Accusative	*salbā	*salbā
Genitive	*salbā	*salbō
Dative	*salbē	salbōm, salbum
Instrumental	*salbu	salbōm, salbum

Derived terms

*salbōn

Descendants

Old English: sealf
- Middle English: salve, salf, salfe, salff, salffe, salwe, selve; scealfe, sealfe, sealve; sallfe
  - English: salve
  - Scots: saw
Old Frisian: *salf; *salve (suggested by derivative salva)
- West Frisian: salve
Old Saxon: salva
- Middle Low German: salve
  - → Old Swedish: salva
    - Swedish: salva
  - → Danish: salve
    - → Icelandic: salvi
    - → Faroese: salva, sálva
Old Dutch: salba, salva
- Middle Dutch: salve
  - Dutch: zalf
    - Afrikaans: salf
    - Negerhollands: salv
    - → Caribbean Javanese: salep
    - → Indonesian: salep
Old High German: salba
- Middle High German: salp
  - German: Salbe
  - Hunsrik: Salleb
  - Luxembourgish: Sallef
  - Yiddish: זאַלב‎ (zalb)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297: “PWGmc *salbu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297: “PWGmc *salbu”