Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krabit

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 *krabitaz.

*krabit m

1. crustacean (crab, lobster, crayfish)

• Old Saxon: krevit
  • Middle Low German: krēvet
    • German Low German: Kreeft, Krefft
    • Plautdietsch: Kjräft
    • → Danish: kræft
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kreft
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreft
    • → Old Swedish: krævet, kræveta
      • Swedish: kräfta
• Old Dutch: *crevet
  • Middle Dutch: creft, crēvet, crēeft
    • Dutch: kreeft
      • Afrikaans: kreef
      • Negerhollands: kreeft, greef
      • → Papiamentu: kref, kreeft
    • Limburgish: kreef
    • → Norman: crabette, cravette, crevette (possibly)
      • → French: crevette
• Old High German: krebiz, krebazzo
  • Old High German: crebiz, krëbez, krebz
    • Alemannic German: Chräps
    • German: Krebs
      • → Danish: krebs
      • → German Low German: Krebs
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: kreps
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreps
      • → Saterland Frisian: Krääps
      • → Scanian: krævs
      • → Yiddish: קרעבס (krebs)
    • Luxembourgish: Kriibs
• → Old French: crevice, crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche (either from a diminutive *krabitjō or from Old High German krebiz)
  • Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
    • French: écrevisse
  • → Middle Dutch: crevetse
  • → Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
    • English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)