Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/korōnā

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

Borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown”).^[1]

Noun

*korōnā f

crown

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*korōnā
Genitive	*korōnōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*korōnā	*korōnōn
Accusative	*korōnōn	*korōnōn
Genitive	*korōnōn	*korōnōnō
Dative	*korōnōn	korōnōm, korōnum
Instrumental	*korōnōn	korōnōm, korōnum

Descendants

Old English: corōna m
- Middle English: corona, crone, crune, croune (early as coronan; merged with Old French)
  - English: crown
  - Scots: crone, croun, crown
Old Frisian: krōne
- Saterland Frisian: Kroune
- West Frisian: kroane, kroan
Old Saxon: *korōna, *krōna
- Middle Low German: krône, krôn
  - German Low German: Kroon
  - → Estonian: kroon
  - → Old Norse: krúna
    - Icelandic: krúna
    - Faroese: krúna
    - Norwegian: krone
    - Danish: krone
      - → Faroese: króna
      - → Icelandic: króna
    - Swedish: krona (see there for further descendants)
Old Dutch: korōna, corōna
- Middle Dutch: croene, crône, croon
  - Dutch: kroon
    - Afrikaans: kroon
    - → Indonesian: kerun
    - Negerhollands: kroon
  - Limburgish: kroean
Old Dutch: *corūna
- Middle Dutch: crune, cruine, cruyn
  - Dutch: kruin
Old High German: krōna, korōna, korona
- Middle High German: krōne, krōn, corōne
  - German: Krone
  - Hunsrik: Kron
  - Luxembourgish: Kroun
  - Yiddish: קרוין (kroyn)
  - → Macedonian: круна (kruna)
  - → Russian: крона (krona)
  - → Serbo-Croatian: kruna / круна
  - → Slovene: krona

References

^ de Vries, Jan (1971) “kroon”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Vries, Jan (1971) “kroon”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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