Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dag

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 *dagaz.

Noun

*dag m

1. day

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*dag(a)
Genitive	*dagas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*dag(a)	*dagōs
Accusative	*dag(a)	*dagā
Genitive	*dagas	*dagō
Dative	*dagē	*dagum
Instrumental	*dagu	*dagum

Derived terms

• *hiu dagu

Descendants

• Old English: dæġ, deġ — Vespasian Psalter Mercian, late Kentish, deag, dæiġ, daig, dag, daġ
  • Middle English: day, dai, daye, dey, daȝȝ, daiȝ, dæi, dæȝ, dei (Early Middle English)
    • English: day
    • Scots: day, dey, dei, dy
    • Yola: die, daie, dei, dey
• Old Frisian: dei, dī
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: dai

    Goesharde: doi

    Mooring: däi

    Sylt: Dai

  • Saterland Frisian: Dai
  • West Frisian: dei
• Old Saxon: dag
  • Middle Low German: dach
    • Low German: Dag
      • Dutch Low Saxon: dag
      • German Low German: Dag

        Hamburgisch: Dag

        Westphalian:

        Lippisch: Dag

        Ravensbergisch: Dach

        Sauerländisch: Dag, Dāg

        Westmünsterländisch: Dagg

    • Plautdietsch: Dach
• Old Dutch: dag
  • Middle Dutch: dach
    • Dutch: dag, dagge, dagh (obsolete)
      • Afrikaans: dag
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: daka
      • Jersey Dutch: dâx
      • Negerhollands: dag, dak
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: dak (archaic)
      • Petjo: dah
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: dak, dagka
      • → Saramaccan: dáka
    • Limburgish: daag
    • West Flemish: dag
    • Zealandic: dag
• Old High German: tag, tac, tak, dac, *dag — northern
  • Middle High German: tac, tag, dach
    • Alemannic German: Tag

      Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

      Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

      Swabian: Dag

    • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch, Tog

      Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

      Mòcheno: ta

      Udinese: tach, ti

    • Central Franconian: Daach

      Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)

    • East Central German:

      Upper Saxon German: Dag

    • German: Tag

      Esperanto: tago

    • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
    • Rhine Franconian: Tach

      Pennsylvania German: Daag

    • Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
    • Vilamovian: taog
    • Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

See also

• days of the week: *wikōn dagō (appendix): *Sunnōn dag · *Mānini dag · *Tīwas dag · *Wōdanas dag · *Þunras dag · *Frījā dag · *Sāturnas dag ^[edit]