Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krabit

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 *krabitaz.

Noun

*krabit m

crustacean (crab, lobster, crayfish)

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*krabit
Genitive	*krabitas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*krabit	krabitō, krabitōs
Accusative	*krabit	*krabitā
Genitive	*krabitas	*krabitō
Dative	*krabitē	*krabitum
Instrumental	*krabitu	*krabitum

Descendants

Old Saxon: krevit
- Middle Low German: krēvet
  - German Low German: Kreeft, Krefft
  - Plautdietsch: Kjräft
  - → Danish: kræft
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: kreft
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreft
  - → Old Swedish: krævet, kræveta
    - Swedish: kräfta
Old Dutch: *crevet
- Middle Dutch: creft, crēvet, crēeft
  - Dutch: kreeft
    - Afrikaans: kreef
    - Negerhollands: kreeft, greef
    - → Papiamentu: kref, kreeft
  - Limburgish: kreef
  - → Norman: crabette, cravette, crevette (possibly)
    - → French: crevette
Old High German: krebiz, krebazzo
- Old High German: crebiz, krëbez, krebz
  - Alemannic German: Chräps
  - German: Krebs
    - → Danish: krebs
    - → German Low German: Krebs
    - → Norwegian Bokmål: kreps
    - → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreps
    - → Saterland Frisian: Krääps
    - → Scanian: krævs
    - → Yiddish: קרעבס (krebs)
  - Luxembourgish: Kriibs
→ Old French: crevice, crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche (either from a diminutive *krabitjō or from Old High German krebiz)
- Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
  - French: écrevisse
- → Middle Dutch: crevetse
- → Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
  - English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)