Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hund

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 *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Noun

*hund m

dog

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hund
Genitive	*hundas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hund	hundō, hundōs
Accusative	*hund	*hundā
Genitive	*hundas	*hundō
Dative	*hundē	*hundum
Instrumental	*hundu	*hundum

Descendants

Old English: hund
- Middle English: hound, hund, honde
  - English: hound
  - Scots: hoond
Old Frisian: hund
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: hünj
  Helgoland: Hin
  Mooring: hün
- Saterland Frisian: Húund
- West Frisian: hûn
Old Saxon: hund
- Middle Low German: hund
  - Low German: Hund
    - German Low German: Hund, Hond, Hunt
      East Frisian: Hund
      Hamburgisch: Hond
    - Westphalian:
      Sauerländisch: Hund
      Westmünsterländisch: Hund
  - Plautdietsch: Hunt
  - → Estonian: hunt
Old Dutch: hund
- Middle Dutch: hont
  - Dutch: hond
    - Afrikaans: hond
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: hondo
    - Jersey Dutch: hônt
    - Negerhollands: hond, hon, hont, hun
      - → Virgin Islands Creole: hont (dated)
  - Limburgish: hóndj
Old High German: hunt
- Middle High German: hunt
  - Alemannic German: Hund
    - Alsatian: Hund
    - Swabian: Hond
    - Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn
  - Bavarian:
    - Cimbrian: hunt
    - Mòcheno: hunt
    - Udinese: hunt
  - Central Franconian: Hond, Honk (most dialects of Ripuarian), Hongk (Aachen), Hunk (Kölsch)
    - Hunsrik: Hund
    - Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk
    - Luxembourgish: Hond
  - German: Hund
    - → Esperanto: hundo
      - → Ido: hundo
  - Mòcheno: hunt
  - Vilamovian: hund
  - Yiddish: הונט (hunt)