Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kwabbā

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-Indo-European *gʷeh₂bʰ- (“to sink, submerge, dive”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Another theory by Kroonen derives the word from a Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₁bʰ- (“soft mass”) and connects Old Armenian կաւ (kaw, “clay”),[1] though this is uncertain.

Noun

*kwabbā f

  1. anything soft and firmless; a squishy lump, mass, or lobe; flab
  2. soggy ground
  3. (zoology) a bottom-dwelling fish (e.g. burbot); tadpole

Inflection

ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *kwabbā
Genitive *kwabbōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *kwabbā *kwabbōn
Accusative *kwabbōn *kwabbōn
Genitive *kwabbōn *kwabbōnō
Dative *kwabbōn *kwabbōm, *kwabbum
Instrumental *kwabbōn *kwabbōm, *kwabbum

Derived terms

  • *kwabbag

Descendants

  • Old English: *cwabbe
    • Middle English: quabbe
  • Old Frisian: *kwabbe, *quabbe
  • Old Saxon: *kwabba, *kwappa
    • Middle Low German: quappe, quabbe
      • German Low German: Quabb, Quebbe (“marshland”)
      • → Old Danish: kvabbe
      • → Old Swedish: qvappa
  • ⇒ Old Saxon: kwappia, quappia, *quabbia, *quebbia
    • Middle Low German: quebbe, queb, quobbe, quöbbe f or n
  • Old Dutch: *quabba
  • Old High German: kwappa, quappa; kwappo, quappo m

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kwabban-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 314
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