Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skap

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 *skapą.

Noun

*skap n

1. shape

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skap
Genitive	*skapas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skap	*skapu
Accusative	*skap	*skapu
Genitive	*skapas	*skapō
Dative	*skapē	*skapum
Instrumental	*skapu	*skapum

Derived terms

• *skapōn

Related terms

• *skappjan

Descendants

• Old English: sceap, ġesceap
  • Middle English: shap, schape
    • English: shape
• Old Frisian: skep
  • North Frisian: schååp
• Old Saxon: skap
  • Middle Low German: schap
    • Low German: Schapp
      • → German: Schapp
    • Plautdietsch: Schaup
    • → Old Norse: skáp (late)
      • Icelandic: skápur
      • Faroese: skáp
      • Old Danish: skap, skaap
        • Danish: skab
      • Norwegian:
        • Norwegian Bokmål: skap
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: skap, skåp
      • Old Swedish: skap, skāp
        • Swedish: skåp
        • → Finnish: kaappi
        • → Ingrian: kaappi
        • → Votic: kaappi
    • → Estonian: kapp
    • → Latvian: skapis
• Old Dutch: *skap
  • Middle Dutch: schap
    • Dutch: schap
• Old High German: scaf
  • Middle High German: schaf
    • Central Franconian: Schaf
      • Luxembourgish: Schaf
    • German: Schaff
    • → Polish: szafa
      • → Belarusian: ша́фа (šáfa)
      • → Ukrainian: ша́фа (šáfa)
      • → Yiddish: שאַפֿע (shafe)
    • → Russian: шкаф (škaf) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Bulgarian: шкаф (škaf)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: шкаф
  • Italo-Romance:
    • → Italian: scaffa
    • → Sicilian: scaffa
      • → Maltese: xkaffa