Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/farh

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 *farhaz.

Noun

*farh m

1. piglet

Inflection

Descendants

• Old English: fearh
  • Middle English: *farow, *fargh (attested only in plural form faren)
    • English: farrow
    • Scots: ferrae, ferry, farry
    • Yola: farragh
• Old Frisian: *farch
  • Saterland Frisian: Faarich
• Old Saxon: for, *farh
  • Middle Low German: var, vare, vôr, ferch, verk
  • ⇒ Old Saxon: *farkīn (diminutive)
    • Middle Low German: verken, varken
      • Low German: Farken
• Old Dutch: *far, *fare
  • Middle Dutch: *var
    • Dutch: var (rare)
  • ⇒ Old Dutch: farkīn, ferkīn (diminutive)
    • Middle Dutch: verkin, varekin, varkin
      • Dutch: varken
        • Afrikaans: vark
        • Jersey Dutch: vārk
        • Negerhollands: varki, fergi, farki, ferkikin, verken
        • Skepi Creole Dutch: fark
• Old High German: farah
  • Middle High German: varch
  • ⇒ Old High German: farhīli, farheli (diminutive)
    • Middle High German: verkel, verhel
      • Alemannic German: Färli
      • German: Ferkel
      • Luxembourgish: Fierkel