Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mōtan

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 *mōtaną.

Verb

*mōtan

1. to be allowed, to be permitted to, may

Inflection

*mōt, *mōst, *mōtun, *mōsā, *mōsan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Old English: mōtan
  • Middle English: moten
    • Scots: mote, mot, moit
    • English: mote
  • ⇒ Old English: mōste (preterite)
    • Middle English: moste
      • Scots: moste, most, moist
      • English: must
• Old Frisian: mōt (present tense)
  • Saterland Frisian: moute
  • West Frisian: moatte
• Old Saxon: mōtan
  • Middle Low German: môten, moste (past)
    • German Low German: möten
    • → Old Swedish: most (late)
      • Swedish: måste
• Old Dutch: muotan
  • Middle Dutch: moeten
    • Dutch: moeten
      • Afrikaans: moet
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: mu, muti
      • Negerhollands: moet, moe, mo, mut
      • → Sranan Tongo: moe
    • Limburgish: mótte
• Old High German: muozan
  • Middle High German: muozen, müezen
    • Alemannic German: müese, müesse
    • Bavarian: miassn

      Cimbrian: missan

    • Central Franconian: mösse, mosse, moße; misse, mieße, muße, moße
      • Hunsrik: misse
      • Luxembourgish: mussen
    • German: müssen
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: misse

    • Yiddish: מוזן (muzn)