Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wurt-

This Proto-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-Germanic

Noun

*wurt-

oblique stem of *wrōts

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *wurti
- Old English: wyrt (“plant, herb”)
  - Middle English: wurt, worte, wort
    - English: wort
    - Middle Scots: *wort (attested in plural wortis)
      - Scots: wirt
    - ⇒ Middle English: wurten, worten (“resembling or pertaining to spice, herbal”, adjective)
- Old English: wyrt (“brewer's wort”) (merged with descendant of *wurtiju)
  - Middle English: wort, worte
    - English: wort
    - Scots: wirt
- Old Saxon: wurt
  - Middle Low German: wort, wurt
- Old Dutch: wurt
  - Middle Dutch: wort
- Old High German: wurz
  - Middle High German: wurz
    - Cimbrian: burtz, buurtza (Sette Comuni)
    - German: Wurz
    - Vilamovian: wiyc
  - ⇒ Old High German: giwurz f
    - Middle High German: *gewürze (attested 15th c.)
      - German: Gewürz n
        → German Low German: Gewürz
      - Luxembourgish: Gewierz
Old Norse: urt (or from *urtiz)
- Icelandic: urt, jurt
- Faroese: urt
- Norn: virt (perhaps influenced by Old or Middle English)
- Norwegian: urt
- Old Swedish: yrt
  - Swedish: ört
  - → Finnish: yrtti
- Danish: urt
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃 (waurts)