Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/apō

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 *apô.

Noun

*apō m

1. simian (ape, monkey)

Reconstruction notes

• The word probably did not originally mean "ape", since Proto-West Germanic speakers probably had never encountered one, but that is the only meaning that is reconstructable from the descendants.

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*apō
Genitive	*apini, *apan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*apō	*apan
Accusative	*apan	*apan
Genitive	*apini, *apan	*apanō
Dative	*apini, *apan	*apum
Instrumental	*apini, *apan	*apum

Descendants

• Old English: apa
  • Middle English: ape, aape (Late Middle English, rare), eape (AB language)
    • English: ape
    • Scots: ape, aip
    • → Cornish: apa
    • → Middle Irish:
      • Irish: ápa
      • Manx: apey, eapey
      • Scottish Gaelic: apa
    • → Welsh: âb, epa
• Old Frisian: *apa
  • North Frisian: aab (Föhr-Amrum), ååwe (Mooring)
  • Saterland Frisian: Oape
  • West Frisian: aap
• Old Saxon: apo
  • Middle Low German: āpe
    • Low German: Ape
    • German Low German: Aap
    • Plautdietsch: Op
• Old Dutch: *apo
  • Middle Dutch: āpe
    • Dutch: aap
      • Afrikaans: aap
• Old High German: affo
  • Middle High German: affe
    • Alemannic German: Aff
    • Central Franconian: Aff, Aap (Ripuarian)
      • Hunsrik: Aff
      • Luxembourgish: Af
    • East Central German: Aff
    • German: Affe
    • Rhine Franconian: Aff
      • Pennsylvania German: Aff
    • Yiddish: אַפֿע (afe)
• → Proto-Slavic: *opъ
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *opica (see there for further descendants)