Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hrinþ

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 Proto-Germanic *hrinþaz.

Noun

*hrinþ n^[1]

head of cattle

Inflection

z-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hrinþ
Genitive	*hrinþiʀi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hrinþ	*hrinþiʀu
Accusative	*hrinþ	*hrinþiʀu
Genitive	*hrinþiʀi	*hrinþiʀō
Dative	*hrinþiʀi	*hrinþiʀum
Instrumental	*hrinþiʀi	*hrinþiʀum

Related terms

*hrunþ

Descendants

Old English: hrīþ (< nom.sg.), hrīþer (< nom.pl.)
- Middle English: rother, reother, rither, rether
  - English: rother
Old Frisian: hrīther, hrēther, hrinder (< nom.pl.)
- North Frisian: ridder, redder
- Saterland Frisian: Räier
- West Frisian: rier
Old Saxon: hrīth, *hrind
- Middle Low German: rint
  - Low German: Rind
Old Dutch: *rint, *rinth
- Middle Dutch: rint, rent
  - Dutch: rind, rend, rund (merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *hrunþ, from Proto-Germanic *hrunþaz)
  - West Flemish: rend
Old High German: rind, hrind
- Middle High German: rint
  - Alemannic German: Rind
  - Central Franconian: Rend, Renk (native in most of Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects), Rond, Rönd (Eifel)
  - German: Rind
  - Hunsrik: Rind
  - Luxembourgish: Rand
  - Vilamovian: rynd

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118: “*hrinþ”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118: “*hrinþ”

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