Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mortārī

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 mortārium (“mortar”).^[1]

Noun

*mortārī m

mortar

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mortārī
Genitive	*mortārijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mortārī	mortārijō, mortārijōs
Accusative	*mortārī	*mortārijā
Genitive	*mortārijas	*mortārijō
Dative	*mortārijē	*mortārijum
Instrumental	*mortāriju	*mortārijum

Alternative reconstructions

*mortālī, *morsārī, *morsālī

Descendants

Old English: mortere
- Middle English: morter, mortere, morteer, mortar, moorter (reenforced from Old French mortier)
  - English: mortar (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: mortar
  - → Welsh: morter, mortar
Old Saxon: *mortāri
- Middle Low German: mōrtære, mōrtēr, mortēr, morter
Old Dutch: *mortari, *mortali
- Middle Dutch: moortere, moorter, morter, moortel, mortel
  - Dutch: mortel
    - Negerhollands: mortel
    - → Indonesian: mortél
Old High German: mortāri, mortari
- Middle High German: mortære, morter, mortel
  - German: Mörtel
    - → Danish: mørtel
    - → Icelandic: mortél
    - → Norwegian: mørtel

References

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

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

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