Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kirsijā

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

Borrowed from Late Latin ceresia.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*kirsijā f

cherry

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kirsijā
Genitive	*kirsijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kirsijā	*kirsijōn
Accusative	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōn
Genitive	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōnō
Dative	*kirsijōn	kirsijōm, kirsijum
Instrumental	*kirsijōn	kirsijōm, kirsijum

Descendants

Old English: ċirse
Old Frisian: *tzerse
- Saterland Frisian: Säärse
Old Saxon: *kirsa
- Middle Low German: kerse
  - Dutch Low Saxon: kaars, kaarze
  - German Low German: Kars
    Plautdietsch: Kjoasch
  - → Finnish: kirsikka
  - → Latvian: ķirsis
  - ⇒ Middle Low German: kersebere
    - → Old Norse: *kirsuber
      - Faroese: kirsuber
      - Icelandic: kirsuber
      - Norwegian Bokmål: kirsebær
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: kirsebær
      - Swedish: körsbär
      - Danish: kirsebær
Old Dutch: *kirsa
- Middle Dutch: kerse
  - Dutch: kers (see there for further descendants)
  - Limburgish: kèrs, kaes, kees
Old High German: kirsa, chirsa, kersa, kirs
- Middle High German: kirse, kërse
  - Alemannic German: Chirsi, Chirschi
  - Bavarian: Kiaschn
    Cimbrian: khèrsch, khèersa (Sette Comuni)
  - Kölsch: Körsche
  - German: Kirsche, Kersche (archaic or dialectal)
    - → Estonian: kirss
  - Luxembourgish: Kiischt, Kiisch
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Hessian: Kesch
    Pennsylvania German: Kasch
  - Vilamovian: kjyś
  - Yiddish: קאַרש (karsh)
→? Proto-Slavic: *čèršьňa (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kirsche”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 371
^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “körsbär”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 390

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kirsche”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 371

[2] Hellquist, Elof (1922) “körsbär”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 390

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