Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fenestr

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.

Borrowed from Latin fenestra.

*fenestr n

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• *fenestrā f

• Old English: fenester
  • Middle English: fenestre, fenester
• Old Frisian: finestre
  • West Frisian: finster, finstre
  • Saterland Frisian: finstere
• Old Saxon: *fenstar n, *fenestra f
  • Middle Low German: venster, fenster, venstere, vinster, vinstere
    • German Low German: Finster
    • → Old Swedish: fynster, finster
      • Swedish: fönster
• Old Dutch: fenstar
  • Middle Dutch: venster, venstre, veinster
    • Dutch: venster
      • Afrikaans: venster
        • → Fanagalo: festel
        • → Sotho: fenstere
        • → Xhosa: ifestile
        • → Zulu: ifasitela
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: fensre
      • Jersey Dutch: väänster, fäängster
      • Negerhollands: fenter, venstu, venster
      • Sranan Tongo: fensre
        • Aukan: fensee
        • Saramaccan: fensë
        • → Caribbean Javanese: fénsré
        • → Kari'na: fensere
      • → Lokono: penster
    • → West Frisian: veister
• Old High German: fenstar n, finestra, fenestra f
  • Middle High German: venster n or f, fenster
    • Alemannic German: Pfeister, Pfäischter, Feister, Fäischter, Pfenster

      Swabian: Fenschdr, Feaschter

    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: béestar

    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Fenster

      Luxembourgish: Fënster

    • East Central German:

      Erzgebirgisch: Fansder

      Upper Saxon German: Fensdor

      Vilamovian: faonster

    • East Franconian:
    • German: Fenster
      • → English: fenster
      • → North Frisian: Fenster
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Frankfurterisch:

      Palatine German: Fenschder

      Pennsylvania German: Fenschder

    • Yiddish: פֿענצטער (fentster)