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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wōpijan
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną.
Verb
*wōpijan[1]
- to weep
Inflection
*wōpiþi, *wewōp, *weupun, *wōpan
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Old English: wēpan
- Middle English: wepen
- Scots: wep, wepe, weip
- English: weep
- Middle English: wepen
- Old Frisian: wēpa
- Saterland Frisian: wapia
- Old Saxon: wōpian
- Middle Low German: wōpen
- Old Dutch: wuopan
- Old High German: wuofan, wuoffan, wuofen
- Middle High German: wuofen, wüefen
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 226: “PWGmc *wōpijan”