Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/friundskapi

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 *friund +‎ *-skapi.

Noun

*friundskapi m^[1]

friendship
Synonym: *winiskapi

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*friundskapi
Genitive	*friundskapī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*friundskapi	*friundskapī
Accusative	*friundskapi	*friundskapī
Genitive	*friundskapī	*friundskappjō
Dative	*friundskapī	friundskapim, friundskappjum
Instrumental	*friundskapī	friundskapim, friundskappjum

Descendants

Old English: frēondsċiepe, frēondsċype, frēondsċipe
- Middle English: frendschip, frendeschepe, frendschipe, frendship, frendshipe, frenschip, frenshepe (frenschepe), ffrenschip, frenchyp, frendeschip, frendshepe, frendshipp, frenship, frenshipe, frenshippe (Late Middle English), freondscipe, freondschipe, freonscipe, freontschipe, fronsipe (early West Midlands)
  - English: friendship
  - Scots: friendship
Old Frisian: friūndskip
- Saterland Frisian: Früündskup, Fjundskup
- West Frisian: freonskip
Old Saxon: friundskepi
- Middle Low German: *vrintskap
  - Low German: Fründschap, Fründschop
Old Dutch: friuntscap
- Middle Dutch: vrientschap
  - Dutch: vriendschap
    - Negerhollands: vriendskap
Old High German: friuntscaf, *friundskaft
- Middle High German: *vriuntschaft
  - German: Freundschaft

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 132: “PWGmc *friund(V)skapi”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 132: “PWGmc *friund(V)skapi”

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