Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bainawurti

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 *bain (“bone”) +‎ *wurti (“plant”), due to its supposed medicinal properties.[1]

Noun

*bainawurti f

  1. comfrey (Symphytum officinale) or another plant believed to mend bones.

Inflection

i-stem
Singular
Nominative *bainawurti
Genitive *bainawurtī
Singular Plural
Nominative *bainawurti *bainawurtī
Accusative *bainawurti *bainawurtī
Genitive *bainawurtī *bainawurtijō
Dative *bainawurtī *bainawurtim, *bainawurtijum
Instrumental *bainawurtī *bainawurtim, *bainawurtijum

Descendants

  • Old English: bānwyrt, bānuyrt — Northumbrian, bānewyrt — late, bānwert, bānwurt — rare
    • Middle English: bonwort, banwurt, bonworte, bonwourt, bonwrt, bonwurt, bayneworte, baynewort (late Northern)
      • Early Modern English: bone-wort
      • Middle Scots: banwort, banwart
  • Old Saxon: *bēnwort
    • Middle Low German: bênwort, beinwort
  • Old High German: beinwurz
    • Middle High German: beinwurz, beinwrz
      • Alemannic German: Beiwurz, Beinwurz
      • Bavarian: Boawurz, Boanwurz
      • German: Beinwurz
      • East Central German: Beinwurz

References

  1. ^ Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) “beinwurz”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen‎[1] (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 521
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