Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bast

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

Uncertain; suggested to be an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- ~ *bʰasḱ- (“bundle, heap, load”), itself thought to be a substrate term adopted by multiple Indo-European branches (for which see Latin fascis (“bundle”) for more), but this is disputed.[1]

Noun

*bast m

  1. rope, fibre

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *bast
Genitive *bastas
Singular Plural
Nominative *bast *bastō, *bastōs
Accusative *bast *bastā
Genitive *bastas *bastō
Dative *bastē *bastum
Instrumental *bastu *bastum

Descendants

  • Old English: bæst
    • Middle English: bast, baste
      • English: bast, bass
      • Scots: bass
  • Old Saxon: bast
  • Old Dutch: *bast
  • Old High German: bast

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*basta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 55
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