Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sīn

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 *sīnaz.

Determiner

*sīn[1]

his/her/its/their own

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: sīn
Old Frisian: sīn
- Saterland Frisian: sin
- West Frisian: syn
Old Saxon: sīn
- Middle Low German: sîn
  - Low German: sin
Old Dutch: sīn
- Middle Dutch: sijn
  - Dutch: zijn
  - Limburgish: zeen
Old High German: sīn
- Middle High German: sīn
  - Alemannic German: siin
  - Cimbrian: zain
  - German: sein
  - Luxembourgish: säin
  - Yiddish: זײַן‎ (zayn)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*sīn”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*sīn”