Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/matisahs

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

Alternative forms

• *matiʀahs

Etymology

From *mati +‎ *sahs.

Noun

*matisahs n

1. food knife

   Synonym: *knīb

Inflection

Descendants

• Old English: meteseax, metseax
• Old Frisian: mess, mes
  • West Frisian: mês
• Old Saxon: metisahs, mezas
  • Middle Low German: metset, messet, mezces, mest, mes
    • German Low German: Mest
    • Plautdietsch: Massa
• Old Dutch: *metisas, *metsas, *mesas
  • Middle Dutch: mets, metser, messe, mes
    • Dutch: mes
      • Afrikaans: mes
        • → Zulu: umese
          • Fanagalo: mes (or directly)
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: mesi
      • Jersey Dutch: määs
      • Negerhollands: mes
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: masa
      • → Indonesian: mes (“medical knife”)
      • → Japanese: メス (mesu, “medical knife”)
      • → Korean: 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”)
      • → Loup A: meschu (from the diminutive form)
      • → Malagasy: méso, mésa
• Old High German: mezzisahs, mezzeres, mezzirahs, mazsahs
  • Middle High German: messer, mezzer
    • Bavarian: Messa

      Cimbrian: mèssar, mezzar

      Mòcheno: messer

    • German: Messer
    • Yiddish: מעסער (meser)