Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sān(ō)

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

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Adverb

*sān(ō)[1]

immediately

Descendants

Old English: sōna
- Middle English: sone
  - Scots: sone, sune, schone, schune, seun, suin
  - English: soon
Old Frisian: sān, sōn
- North Frisian: san
Old Saxon: sān, sāna, sāno, sāne
- Middle Low German: sān
Old Dutch: *sān
- Middle Dutch: sâen
  - Dutch: zaan
  - Limburgish: zaon
Old High German: sān
- Middle High German: sān, son

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “PWGmc *sānō”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “PWGmc *sānō”