Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kāsī

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 *kāsijaz, borrowed from Latin cāseus.

Noun

*kāsī m^[1]

cheese

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kāsī
Genitive	*kāsijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kāsī	kāsijō, kāsijōs
Accusative	*kāsī	*kāsijā
Genitive	*kāsijas	*kāsijō
Dative	*kāsijē	*kāsijum
Instrumental	*kāsiju	*kāsijum

Descendants

Old English: ċīese, ċǣse, ċēse, ċȳse, cȳsa
- Middle English: chese, cheese, chesse, cheys, chiese, chise, cæse, ceose, cuse, cyse (Early Middle English)
  - English: cheese (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: cheese
Old Frisian: tzīse, *tzēse^[2]
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: sees
  
  Helgoland: sīs, sīz
  
  Mooring: säis
  
  Wiedingharde: sees
- East Frisian:
  Harlingerland Frisian: tzise, tzyse
  
  Saterland Frisian: Síes
  
  Wangerooge Frisian: siiz
  
  Wursten Frisian: zise, schieese
- West Frisian: tsiis, tsjiis
  Hindeloopen: sees
  
  Schiermonnikoog: tjiis
Old Saxon: kāsi
- Middle Low German: kêse
  - Low German: Käse
    - Dutch Low Saxon: keze
    - German Low German: Kees
  - Plautdietsch: Kjees
Old Dutch: *cāsi
- Middle Dutch: câse, kese (eastern)
  - Dutch: kaas
    - Afrikaans: kaas
      - → Sotho: kase
      - → Tswana: kase
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: kasi
    - Jersey Dutch: kääs
    - Negerhollands: kaas, kaes
    - → Aukan: kasi
    - → Papiamentu: keshi (from the diminutive)
    - → Peranakan Indonesian: kas
    - → Sranan Tongo: kasi
      - → Caribbean Hindustani: kási
      - → Saramaccan: kási
  - Limburgish: kieës, kees
Old High German: kāsi, chāsi
- Middle High German: kæse
  - Alemannic German: Chääs, Chees, Chèès
    Alsatian: Käs
    Swabian: Kääs
    Walser: cheisch, chesch, chiesch, chääs, chìŝch
  - Bavarian: Kas, Kaas
    Cimbrian: kese, khes, khéeze
    Mòcheno: kas
    Udinese: ckaas, kase, khase
  - East Franconian: Kaas, Kees
  - German: Käse
  - Hunsrik: Kees
  - Kölsch: Kies
  - Luxembourgish: Kéis
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Hessian: Käs
    Palatine German: Kees
    Pennsylvania German: Kaes
  - Vilamovian: kȳz
  - Yiddish: קעז (kez)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kāsī”
^ Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “tsiis”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 42.

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kāsī”

[2] Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “tsiis”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 42.

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