Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plastr

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

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *plastrum.^[1]

Noun

*plastr n

plaster, bandage

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plastr
Genitive	*plastras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plastr	*plastru
Accusative	*plastr	*plastru
Genitive	*plastras	*plastrō
Dative	*plastrē	*plastrum
Instrumental	*plastru	*plastrum

Reconstruction notes

Middle Germanic forms corrupted, if not displaced by Old French plastre, plaistre.

Alternative reconstructions

*plāstr

Descendants

Old English: plaster
- Middle English: plaster, plastre, playster, plastir, plaistre
  - English: plaster
Old Saxon: plāstar
- Middle Low German: plaster, plāster, plastere
  - German Low German: Ploaster
  - Plautdietsch: Pleista
  - → Old Norse: plástr^[1]
    - Icelandic: plástur
    - Norwegian: plaster
    - Old Swedish: plaster
      - Swedish: plåster
    - Danish: plaster
Old Dutch: *plastar
- Middle Dutch: plaster, plastre, plaester, plaister
  - Dutch: pleister, plaaster (Belgium)
    - Negerhollands: pleester
    - → Indonesian: plester
    - → Caribbean Javanese: plèster
    - → Papiamentu: pleister, pleistu
Old High German: pflastar, pflāstar
- Middle High German: pflaster
  - German: Pflaster
    - → Polish: plaster

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 de Vries, Jan (1971) “plaaster”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

[NEW-1] 1.0 ^1.1 de Vries, Jan (1971) “plaaster”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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