Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gingiberō

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

Borrowed from Late Latin gingiber, from Latin zingiberī.

Noun

*gingiberō m

1. ginger

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gingiberō
Genitive	*gingibirini, *gingiberan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gingiberō	*gingiberan
Accusative	*gingiberan	*gingiberan
Genitive	*gingibirini, *gingiberan	*gingiberanō
Dative	*gingibirini, *gingiberan	*gingiberum
Instrumental	*gingibirini, *gingiberan	*gingiberum

Alternative reconstructions

• *ingiberō, *gingiberā

Descendants

• Old English: gingifer f, gingiber, gingifere
  • Middle English: gingivere, gingere, gingivre, gingyver, gynger, gyngere, gyngever, gyngiver, gyngyver, gyngyvyr (contaminated by Old French)
    • English: ginger
    • Scots: ginger, ginge
    • → Irish: sinséar
    • → Scottish Gaelic: dinnsear
    • → Manx: jinshar
    • → Welsh: sinsir
• Old Saxon: *gingibera, *ingibera
  • Middle Low German: ingever, inghever, ingeber, incheber, engever, engewer, engevar, engeber, gengever, gengevar, gengefer, gengwer, gengewer, genckver, genwer, gingeber, gingever, gangeber
    • German Low German:

      Low Prussian: Engfäär

    • Plautdietsch: Enjwa
    • → Danish: ingefær
      • → Faroese: ingifer
      • → Icelandic: engifer
    • → Norwegian: ingefær
    • → Swedish: ingefära
      • → Finnish: inkivääri
• Old Dutch: *gingibero
  • Middle Dutch: gingebare, gigeberre, gengeber, gingeber, gengevar, ginghebare
    • Dutch: gember
      • Afrikaans: gemmer
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: gembru
      • Jersey Dutch: jäämver
      • → Lokono: sizembri
      • → Papiamentu: ehèmber, gèmber, hember
      • → West Frisian: gimber
• Old High German: gingibero, gingiber, ingiber
  • Middle High German: ingeber, ingewer, ingwer, gingebere
    • German: Ingwer, Ingber, Imber (dialectal, obsolete)
      • → Estonian: ingver
      • → Latvian: ingvers
      • → Luxembourgish: Ingwer
      • → Polish: imbir, imbier, imgbir, imber, ingbier, ingbir, jęgbir, engbier, imgbier, inbier, inbir (obsolete)
        • → Belarusian: імбір (imbir)
        • → Lithuanian: imbieras
        • → Russian: имби́рь (imbírʹ)
        • → Ukrainian: імби́р (imbýr)
      • → Slovene: īngver, īmber
      • → Lower Sorbian: ingwer
      • → Upper Sorbian: himbjer, ingwer
    • Yiddish: אינגבער (ingber)