< Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wiʀ
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wīz.
Pronoun
*wiʀ[1]
- we (all)
Inflection
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Old English: wē, ƿē, wæ
- Middle English: we, whe, ve, woe, wue, weo, wæ, hwe, vue, huue
- English: we
- Scots: we, wee, wa
- Yola: wee
- Middle English: we, whe, ve, woe, wue, weo, wæ, hwe, vue, huue
- Old Frisian: wī
- North Frisian: wi, wü
- Saterland Frisian: wie
- West Frisian: wy
- Old Saxon: wī
- Middle Low German: wî, wy
- Dutch Low Saxon: wi
- German Low German: wi, wî
- Plautdietsch: wie
- Middle Low German: wî, wy
- Old Dutch: wī
- Middle Dutch: wi
- Dutch: wij
- Middle Dutch: wi
- Old High German: wir
- Middle High German: wir
- Cimbrian: bar
- German: wir
- ⇒ Middle High German: mir
- Alemannic German: mir, mier
- Bavarian: mia
- German: mir (dialectal)
- Hunsrik: meer
- Luxembourgish: mir, mer
- Pennsylvania German: mer
- Yiddish: מיר (mir)
- Middle High German: wir
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*wiz”