Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skarp

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 *skarpaz.

Adjective

*skarp^[1]

sharp

Inflection

a-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*skarp
Genitive	*skarpas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*skarp	*skarpu	*skarp
Accusative	*skarpanā	*skarpā	*skarp
Genitive	*skarpas	*skarpeʀā	*skarpas
Dative	*skarpumē	*skarpeʀē	*skarpumē
Instrumental	*skarpu	*skarpeʀu	*skarpu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*skarpē	*skarpō	*skarpu
Accusative	*skarpā	*skarpā	*skarpu
Genitive	*skarpeʀō	*skarpeʀō	*skarpeʀō
Dative	skarpēm, skarpum	skarpēm, skarpum	skarpēm, skarpum
Instrumental	skarpēm, skarpum	skarpēm, skarpum	skarpēm, skarpum

Derived terms

Related terms

*skurpijan

Descendants

Old English: sċarp, sċearp
- Middle English: scharp
  - Scots: scharp
  - English: sharp
Old Frisian: skerp, skarp
- Saterland Frisian: skärp, skäärp, schäärp
- West Frisian: skerp
Old Saxon: skarp
- Middle Low German: scharp
  - Low German: scharp
Old Dutch: scarp
- Middle Dutch: scharp
  - Dutch: scherp
  - Limburgish: sjèrp
Old High German: scarf, scarph
- Middle High German: scharpf
  - Alemannic German: scharpf
  - Bavarian: scharf
  - Central Franconian: schärp, scharp (eastern Ripuarian), scharf (Moselle Franconian; now alternatively in Ripuarian via German)
  - German: scharf
  - Hunsrik: schaaref
  - Luxembourgish: schaarf
  - Yiddish: שאַרף (sharf)
→ Old Catalan: escarp
- Catalan: esquerp

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205: “PWGmc *skarp”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205: “PWGmc *skarp”

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