Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kastannjā

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 castanea.

*kastannjā f

1. chestnut
2. chestnut tree

• *kastinnju

Middle Germanic forms corrupted, if not displaced by Old French chastaigne.

• *kastannjabaum
  • Old English: ċiestenbēam
  • Old Saxon: *kastanniabōm
    • Middle Low German: kastanienbôm, kastanntenbôm
      • German Low German: Kastanjenboom
  • Old High German: kestinaboum, kestinnaboum

• Old English: ċisten, ċysten, *ċeasten, *ċiesten, *ċistene
  • Middle English: chesteyne, chasteine, chasten, chasteyn, chaston, chestan, chestayn, chesten, chestein, chestyn, cheston, kesteyn (merged with Old French chastaigne)
    • English: chesten (obsolete)
      • ⇒ English: chestnut
        • → Middle Scots: chastnut (calque)
          • Scots: chestnut
    • Middle Scots: chastan, chasten, chestane
• Old Saxon: kestena, *kastannia
  • Middle Low German: kastanie, kastannie, castanee, kastandie, karstânie, karstannie, karstandie, karstênie, karstênige
    • German Low German: Kastanje, Kristanje, Kastanigge, Kaschtanje, Kustanje
    • → Swedish: kastanj
      • → Finnish: kastanja
• Old Dutch: *kestina
  • Middle Dutch: castānie
    • Dutch: kastanje
• Old High German: kestina, kestinna
  • Middle High German: kestene, kesten
    • Alemannic German: Chestene
    • Bavarian: Kestn
    • German: Kästen, Kesten
    • ⇒ Middle High German: *keste (reanalyzed in the singular)
      • Bavarian: Kest, Kescht

        Cimbrian: khésta, khest (Luserna)

      • German: Käste, Keste
      • Luxembourgish: Käscht
      • Palatine German: Keschde