Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wlakw

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 *wlakwaz.

Adjective

*wlakw[1]

lukewarm

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: wlacu, wlæc
- Middle English: wlak, wlach
  - Early Scots: *wlach, *walch, *walgh
    - Scots: wallachie, wauch
Old Saxon: *wlak
- Middle Low German: wlak, wlack

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: “PWGmc *wlaku, *wlakwa-”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: “PWGmc *wlaku, *wlakwa-”