Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/lamb

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 *lambaz.

Noun

*lamb n^[1]

lamb

Inflection

z-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*lamb
Genitive	*lambiʀi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*lamb	*lambiʀu
Accusative	*lamb	*lambiʀu
Genitive	*lambiʀi	*lambiʀō
Dative	*lambiʀi	*lambiʀum
Instrumental	*lambiʀi	*lambiʀum

Descendants

Old English: lamb, lomb
- Middle English: lamb, lam
  - Scots: lam, lamb
  - English: lamb
  - Yola: lhawmb
Old Frisian: lamb, lam
- North Frisian:
  - Föhr: lum
  - Hallig: lööm
  - Heligoland: Lum
  - Mooring: löm
- Saterland Frisian: Loum
- West Frisian: laam
Old Saxon: lamb
- Middle Low German: lamp, lam
  - Low German: Lamm
  - Plautdietsch: Laum
Old Dutch: *lamb (possibly also in placename lampanesse)
- Middle Dutch: lamp, lam
  - Dutch: lam
    - Afrikaans: lam
  - Limburgish: laam
Old High German: lamb
- Middle High German: lamp, lam
  - Cimbrian: lamp
  - German: Lamm
  - Luxembourgish: Lamm
  - Vilamovian: łamm
  - Yiddish: לאַם (lam)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*lamb”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*lamb”

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