Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kampijō

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 *kampijan (“to fight, do battle”) +‎ *-jō.

Noun

*kampijō m^[1]

combat soldier

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kampijō
Genitive	kampijini, kampijan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kampijō	*kampijan
Accusative	*kampijan	*kampijan
Genitive	kampijini, kampijan	*kampijanō
Dative	kampijini, kampijan	*kampijum
Instrumental	kampijini, kampijan	*kampijum

Related terms

Descendants

Old English: cempa, cæmpa
- Middle English: kempe
  - English: kemp; Kemp (surname)
  - Scots: kemp
- Middle English: cæppe, keppe (merger with Old Norse kappi)
- → Old Norse: kempa f
  - Icelandic: kempa
  - Faroese: kempa
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: kjempe, kjempa
  - Middle Swedish: kämpa
    - Swedish: kämpe
Old Frisian: kempa
Old Saxon: kempio
- Middle Low German: kempe
  - → German: Kämpe
  - → Swedish: kämpe
  - → Danish: kjæmpe, kæmpe
    - Norwegian Bokmål: kjempe m or f
Old Dutch: *kempo
- Middle Dutch: kempe
Old High German: kempfo, kemphio, chemphio, kempho, chempho
- Middle High German: kempfe
  - German: Kämpfe, Kämpfer
→ Latin: campiō (see there for further descendants)

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 *kampijō”

[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 *kampijō”

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