Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/galgō

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 *galgô.

Noun

*galgō m^[1]

gallows

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*galgō
Genitive	galgini, galgan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*galgō	*galgan
Accusative	*galgan	*galgan
Genitive	galgini, galgan	*galganō
Dative	galgini, galgan	*galgum
Instrumental	galgini, galgan	*galgum

Descendants

Old English: ġealga, galga — Anglian
- Middle English: galwes, galwe, galowe, galewes
  - Scots: galow, gallo, gallows
  - English: gallow, gallows
Old Frisian: galga
- North Frisian: gulig
- Saterland Frisian: Galge
- West Frisian: galge
Old Saxon: galgo
- Middle Low German: galge
  - German Low German: Galge, Galg
  - Low German: Galgen
  - Plautdietsch: Gaulj
Old Dutch: *galga
- Middle Dutch: galge
  - Dutch: galg
Old High German: galgo, galga
- Middle High German: galge
  - Alemannic German: Galge
  - German: Galgen
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: галге
      Latin script: galge
  - Luxembourgish: Gaalgen
→ Old French: jauge, gauge
- Middle French: jauge
  - French: jauge
- → Galician: galgar
- → Middle English: gauge, gage
  - Scots: gauge
  - English: gauge

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 184: “PWGmc *galgō”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 184: “PWGmc *galgō”

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