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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skāp
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skēpą.
Noun
*skāp n[1]
- sheep
Inflection
| Neuter a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *skāp | |
| Genitive | *skāpas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *skāp | *skāpu |
| Accusative | *skāp | *skāpu |
| Genitive | *skāpas | *skāpō |
| Dative | *skāpē | *skāpum |
| Instrumental | *skāpu | *skāpum |
Descendants
- Old English: sċēap, *sċǣp, sċēp
- Middle English: sheep, scheep, schep, schepe
- English: sheep
- Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
- → Rotokas: sipisipi
- → Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
- → Chuukese: siip
- → Coeur d'Alene: sip
- Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
- Scots: sheep
- Yola: zheep
- English: sheep
- Middle English: sheep, scheep, schep, schepe
- Old Frisian: skēp, schēp
- North Frisian: sjip, schäip
- Saterland Frisian: Scep, Skäip
- West Frisian: skiep
- Old Saxon: skāp, scāp
- Middle Low German: schâp
- Low German:
- German Low German:
- Hamburgisch: Schaap
- Westphalian:
- Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Schåp
- Sauerländisch: Schōp
- Westmünsterländisch: Schaop
- German Low German:
- Plautdietsch: Schop
- Low German:
- Middle Low German: schâp
- Old Dutch: scāp
- Middle Dutch: schâep
- Dutch: schaap
- Afrikaans: skaap
- → Sranan Tongo: skapu
- Dutch: schaap
- Middle Dutch: schâep
- Old High German: scāf
- Middle High German: schāf
- Alemannic German: Schooff
- Swabian: Schoaf
- Bavarian: Schåf
- Carinthian: Hap
- East Central German:
- Upper Saxon: Schåf
- German: Schaf
- → Alemannic German: Schaf
- Hunsrik: Schof
- Luxembourgish: Schof
- Rhine Franconian: Schoof
- Palatine German: Schoof
- Pennsylvania German: Schof
- Vilamovian: siöf
- Yiddish: שאָף (shof)
- Alemannic German: Schooff
- Middle High German: schāf
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*skāp”