Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sī

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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 *sī; see Proto-Germanic *iz.

Pronoun

*sī

  1. she, it

Inflection


Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Old Frisian: *sie
  • Old Saxon: sia, sie
    • Middle Low German: , su, sia
      • Dutch Low Saxon: zee
      • German Low German: se
      • Plautdietsch: see
  • Old Dutch: siu, sia
  • Old High German: siu, si
    • Middle High German: siu, si
      • Alemannic German: si
      • Bavarian:
        Cimbrian: zi, si; ze
        Mòcheno: si
      • German: sie
      • Hunsrik: sie
      • Luxembourgish: si
      • Yiddish: זי (zi)

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124:*sī