Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/alahsinā

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.

Presumably borrowed from Latin aloxinum,^[1] if not the other way around, or possibly from *alh (“protection; temple”)^[2] or *algōn (“to defend, protect”) +‎ *sinn (“sense, perception”, agent suffix) +‎ *-jā for its alleged mental curative properties, compare *warjamōdā (“wormwood”), perhaps from *warjan (“to defend against”) +‎ *mōd (“mind, sense”).

*alahsinā f

1. wormwood

   Synonym: *warjamōdā

• *alahsan (< Latin aloxanus, alosanus)
  • Old High German: alahsan m

• Old Saxon: *alasina
  • Middle Low German: alsen, alsene
    • German Low German:

      Westmünsterländisch: Als, Alsen, Alsten, Alpsen

• Old Dutch: *alasina
  • Middle Dutch: alsene
    • Dutch: alsem, alsene, alsine, alsen, alssen
      • Afrikaans: alsem
      • → West Frisian: alsem
      • → Japanese: アルセム (arusemu)
• Old High German: alahsna, alesina
  • Middle High German: alsen, alsene
    • German: Alsem
    • Luxembourgish: Alzem
• →? Medieval Latin: aloxinum, aloxanum, aloxmum, aloxanus, alosanus (see there for further descendants)