Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sparwō

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 *sparwô.

Noun

*sparwō m[1]

sparrow

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sparwō
Genitive	*sparwini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sparwō	*sparwan
Accusative	*sparwan	*sparwan
Genitive	*sparwini	*sparwanō
Dative	*sparwini	*sparwum
Instrumental	*sparwini	*sparwum

Descendants

Old English: spearwa
- Middle English: sparwe, sparuwe, sparowe, sparewe, speruwe, sparu, sparow
  - Scots: sparrowe, sparow
  - English: sparrow
    - → Manx: sparroo
Old Saxon: *sparo; *sperling
- Middle Low German: sperlink
Old High German: sparo
- Middle High German: sparwe, spare, spar
  - Alemannic German: Spar
  - ⇒ Middle High German: spaz, spatze (diminutive)
    - Alemannic German: Spatz, Schpatz
    - German: Spatz
      - → Luxembourgish: Spatz
- ⇒ Old High German: sperilig
  - Middle High German: sperlinc
    - German: Sperling

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180: “PWGmc *sparwō”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180: “PWGmc *sparwō”