Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/willjakwemō

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.

From Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô.

*willjakwemō m

1. a wished-for guest or arrival

• Old English: wilcuma, wilcume
  • Middle English: welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume
    • Scots: walcome
    • English: welcome
      • → Tok Pisin: welkam
      • → Pitcairn-Norfolk: welkam
  • ⇒ Old English: wilcumian, wylcumian, wellcumian (verb)
    • Middle English: wilcumen, wolcumen, welcomen
      • English: welcome
      • Scots: welcum, welcom, wellcom, willcom
    • ⇒ Old English: ġewilcumian
• Old Frisian: *wilkuma
  • Saterland Frisian: wilkemen, wülkemen, wäilkúmen
  • West Frisian: wolkom
• Old Saxon: *willikumo
  • Middle Low German: willekome, wilkome, willekom
    • ⇒ Middle Low German: willekomen, willekōmen (verb)
      • ⇒ Middle Low German: willekōmen, wolkōmen (past participle, adjective)
        • German Low German: willkomen
        • → Old Norse: velkominn (adjective)
          • Icelandic: velkominn
          • Faroese: vælkomin
          • Norwegian:
            • Norwegian Bokmål: velkommen
            • Norwegian Nynorsk: velkomen, velkommen
          • Old Swedish: vælkomin
            • Swedish: välkommen
          • Danish: velkommen
• Old Dutch: *willikumo
  • Middle Dutch: willecome, wellecome, welcome
    • Dutch: welkom
      • Afrikaans: welkom
    • Limburgish: welkom, wilkóm
    • → Old French: willecome, willecomme, wilecome
      • Middle French: willecomme (adjective, interjection)
      • ⇒ Old French: willecomer, wilecomer (verb)
        • Middle French: welcumer, welcomer, welcomier (verb)
• Old High German: willikwemo, williquemo, willikomo, willechomen
  • Middle High German: willekomen
    • Alemannic German: wéllkòmm, wol chomne, wolgcheemen, woul chemne
    • Cimbrian: bóolkhèmm
    • German: willkommen
    • Luxembourgish: wëllkëmm
• → Vulgar Latin: *bene venītus, *bene venūtus (calque) (see there for further descendants)