Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/massing

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 *massjā (“brass”) +‎ *-ing.

Noun

*massing m^[1]

brass

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*massing
Genitive	*massingas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*massing	massingō, massingōs
Accusative	*massing	*massingā
Genitive	*massingas	*massingō
Dative	*massingē	*massingum
Instrumental	*massingu	*massingum

Alternative reconstructions

*massjing^[2]

Derived terms

*golþamassing

Descendants

Old English: mæsling, mæslen, mæstling (altered by -ling, intrusive -t-)
- Middle English: mestling, maslyn, mastelyn, mastling, meslin
  - English: maslin
Old Saxon: messing, missing, missinc
- Middle Low German: messinc, missink, missinc
  - → Latvian: misiņš
  - → Lithuanian: misingis, misingas, misinè
  - → Old Norse: messing, massing, mersing^[1]
    - Danish: messing
    - Faroese: messing
    - Icelandic: messing
    - Norwegian: messing
    - Swedish: mässing
      - → Estonian: messing
Old Dutch: messink
- Middle Dutch: messinc, missinc, messanc, messinge
  - Dutch: messing
    - → West Frisian: messing
Old High German: messing, messinc
- Middle High German: messinc, mezzinc, missinc
  - German: Messing (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Slavic: *mosędzь^[1] (see there for further descendants)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) “messing”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 362-363: “westgerm. *mas(s)ingvoraus”
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*masjinga-(?)”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356

[EWA-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) “messing”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 362-363: “westgerm. *mas(s)ingvoraus”

[2] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*masjinga-(?)”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356

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