Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/disk

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

Borrowed from Latin discus.

Noun

*disk m

dish
Synonym: *skutilu

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*disk
Genitive	*diskas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*disk	diskō, diskōs
Accusative	*disk	*diskā
Genitive	*diskas	*diskō
Dative	*diskē	*diskum
Instrumental	*disku	*diskum

Descendants

Old English: disċ
- Middle English: disch, dish, disc
  - English: dish
    - Tok Pisin: dis
  - Scots: dish
  - Yola: dishe
Old Saxon: disk
- Middle Low German: disch
  - German Low German: Disk, Disch
    Plautdietsch: Desch
Old Dutch: disc
- Middle Dutch: disch
  - Dutch: dis
  - Limburgish: dösj
Old High German: tisc
- Middle High German: tisch
  - Alemannic German: Disch
  - Bavarian: Disch
    Cimbrian: tiss, tisch (Luserna)
  - Central Franconian:
    Eiflerisch: Disch, Desch
    Hunsrik: Disch
    Kölsch: Desch
    Luxembourgish: Dësch
    Transylvanian Saxon: Däsch
  - East Central German:
    Vilamovian: tejś
  - East Franconian:
  - German: Tisch
  - Rhine Franconian: Disch
    Pennsylvania German: Disch
  - Yiddish: טיש (tish)
→? Old Norse: diskr (see there for further descendants)
→? Proto-Slavic: *dъskà (“board”) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *disk”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *disk”