Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/auhaim

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 *awahaimaz.

Noun

*auhaim m

1. maternal uncle

Inflection

Descendants

• Old English: ēam
  • Middle English: em, eam, eem, eeme, eme, heme, nem; æem, æm, eom, heam, yem; eame, eyme
    • English: eam, eme (dialectal)
    • Scots: eme
• Old Frisian: ām, āme, ēm
  • North Frisian: ohm
  • Saterland Frisian: Oom
  • West Frisian: iem, yem, yeme
• Old Saxon: *ōhēm
  • Middle Low German: ōhem, ōm
    • Low German: Ohm

      Münsterländisch: Low German: Öhms (plural)

    • Plautdietsch: Oom
• Old Dutch: *ōm
  • Middle Dutch: ôom
    • Dutch: oom
      • Afrikaans: oom
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: om
      • Negerhollands: noom, nom, noem
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: nom, noom (dated)
      • → Indonesian: om
      • → Papiamentu: mò, òn, òmpi (from the diminutive), mo (Aruba), òm (Aruba), omo (Aruba), oom
      • → Sranan Tongo: omu
      • → West Frisian: omme, omke
    • Limburgish: oeam
• Old High German: ōheim
  • Middle High German: ōheim; (Central German) ōhem, ōem
    • German: Oheim, Ohm (partly from Low German), Oehm

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