Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wurti

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 *wrōts.

Noun

*wurti m[1]

root
spice

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wurti
Genitive	*wurtī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wurti	*wurtī
Accusative	*wurti	*wurtī
Genitive	*wurtī	*wurtijō
Dative	*wurtī	*wurtim
Instrumental	*wurtī	*wurtim

Derived terms

*wurtijan
*wurtiju

Descendants

Old English: wyrt (“plant, herb”)
- Middle English: wurt, worte, wort
  - English: wort
  - Middle Scots: *wort (attested in plural wortis)
    - Scots: wirt
  - ⇒ Middle English: wurten, worten (“resembling or pertaining to spice, herbal”, adj)
Old English: wyrt (“brewer's wort”) (merged with descendant of *wurtiju)
- Middle English: wort, worte
  - English: wort
  - Scots: wirt
Old Saxon: wurt
- Middle Low German: wort, wurt
Old Dutch: wurt
- Middle Dutch: worte
Old High German: wurz
- Middle High German: wurz
  - Cimbrian: burtz, buurtza
  - German: Wurz
  - Vilamovian: wiyc
- ⇒ Old High German: giwurz f
  - Middle High German: *gewürze (attested 15th c.)
    - German: Gewürz n
      - → German Low German: Gewürz
    - Luxembourgish: Gewierz

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 287: “PWGmc *wurti”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 287: “PWGmc *wurti”