Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/klaiw

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown; possibly from an original z-stem[1] *klaiw ~ *klaiwiʀi, perhaps of substrate origin.[2]

Noun[edit]

*klaiw n

  1. clover

Inflection[edit]

z-stem
Singular
Nominative *klaiw
Genitive *klaiwiʀi
Singular Plural
Nominative *klaiw *klaiwiʀu
Accusative *klaiw *klaiwiʀu
Genitive *klaiwiʀi *klaiwiʀō
Dative *klaiwiʀi *klaiwiʀum
Instrumental *klaiwiʀi *klaiwiʀum

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*klaiwiz-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 291-292
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter (1997) “Animal, vegetable and mineral: some Western European substratum words”, in Lubotsky, A., editor, Sound Law and Analogy‎[1], Amsterdam/Atlanta, pages 293–316
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