Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *sī; see Proto-Germanic *iz.

Pronoun

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*sī[1]

  1. she, it

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Descendants

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  • Old Frisian: *sie
  • Old Saxon: sia, sie
    • Middle Low German: , su, sia
      • Dutch Low Saxon: zee
      • German Low German: se
      • Plautdietsch: see
  • Old Dutch: siu, sia
  • Old High German: siu, si

References

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  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124:*sī