Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fimf

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.

From Proto-Germanic *fimf.

*fimf

1. five

• Old English: fīf
  • Middle English: five, fife, fif, fyve, vif, vive
    • English: five
    • Scots: five, fif, fife, fyve
    • Yola: veeve
• Old Frisian: fīf
  • North Frisian:

    Most dialects: fiiw

    Helgoland: fiuw

    Sylt: fif

  • Saterland Frisian: fieuw
  • West Frisian: fiif
• Old Saxon: fīf, fīvi
  • Middle Low German: vîf
    • German Low German: fiev
    • Plautdietsch: fief
• Old Dutch: finf, vīf
  • Middle Dutch: vijf
    • Dutch: vijf
      • Afrikaans: vyf
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: faifu, fefu
      • Javindo: fijf
      • Jersey Dutch: vāif
      • Negerhollands: fyf, fev, veif
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: faif
      • Sranan Tongo: feifi
        • Aukan: feifi
      • → Trió: peihpë
    • Limburgish: vief
• Old High German: fimf
  • Middle High German: vinf, vünf
    • Alemannic German: foif, föif, füüf, fünf

      Alsatian: fénef, fänef, feenef

      Swabian: finf

    • Bavarian: finf

      Cimbrian: vünve, bümbe (Mezzaselva)

      Mòcheno: vinf

    • Central Franconian: fönnef, fennef, fief

      Hunsrik: finnef

    • East Central German: fönff
    • German: fünf
    • Luxembourgish: fënnef
    • Pennsylvania German: fimf
    • Vilamovian: fynf
    • Yiddish: פֿינף (finf)