Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/īhu

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 *īhwaz.

Noun

*īhu m

yew tree

Inflection

Masculine wa-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*īhu
Genitive	*īhwas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*īhu	īhwō, īhwōs
Accusative	*īhu	*īhwā
Genitive	*īhwas	*īhwō
Dative	*īhwē	*īhum
Instrumental	*īhu	*īhum

Descendants

Old English: īw, ēow, ēoh
- Middle English: ew, u, iw, iv, eev, hw, ewe
  - English: yew
  - Scots: yew, ewe
Old Saxon: īh, īch
- Middle Low German: îve, yue, iwe
Old Dutch: *īwa
- Middle Dutch: ieve, ijf (possibly a reborrowing from Latin or Romance)
  - Dutch: ijf
Old High German: īwa, eiba, īgo, īga, īha f
- Middle High German: īwe, ībe
  - Alemannic German: Iche, Ige
  - Cimbrian: aiba
  - German: Eibe
  - Yiddish: אייבנבוים‎ (eybnboym)
→ Late Latin: ivus, *iva
- Spanish: iva
- Old French: if
  - Middle French: if
    - French: if
  - Norman: if