Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wapsu
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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 *wapsō.
Noun
*wapsu f[1]
Inflection
| ō-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *wapsu | |
| Genitive | *wapsā | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *wapsu | *wapsō |
| Accusative | *wapsā | *wapsā |
| Genitive | *wapsā | *wapsō |
| Dative | *wapsē | *wapsōm, *wapsum |
| Instrumental | *wapsu | *wapsōm, *wapsum |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old English: wæps, wæsp, wæfs
- Old Frisian: *waps
- Old Saxon: waspa
- Middle Low German: wopse
- Old Dutch: wapsa (attested in Latin text as uuapces)
- Old High German: wafsa
- → Old French: guespe, vespe, wespe, wapce (partially) (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Wespe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 788: “wg. *wab-sō”