Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/nefō

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 *nefô.

Noun

*nefō m^[1]

grandson

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*nefō
Genitive	nifini, nefan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*nefō	*nefan
Accusative	*nefan	*nefan
Genitive	nifini, nefan	*nefanō
Dative	nifini, nefan	*nefum
Instrumental	nifini, nefan	*nefum

Descendants

Old English: nefa
- Middle English: neve, neave, neva, nefa, newe, neafe, nefe
  - English: neve
Old Frisian: neva
Old Saxon: nevo
- Middle Low German: nēve
  - German Low German: Neev
Old Dutch: nevo
- Middle Dutch: nēve
  - Dutch: neef
    - Afrikaans: neef
    - → Papiamentu: neefie (dated)
    - → Sranan Tongo: nefo, neifo
      - → Dutch: niffo
    - → West Frisian: neef
  - Limburgish: naef
Old High German: nevo, nefo
- Middle High German: nëfe, nëve, nëf, nebe
  - Cimbrian: néf
  - German: Neffe, Nefe (obsolete)
    - →? German Low German: Neffe

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “nom. pl. [...] PWGmc *nefan”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “nom. pl. [...] PWGmc *nefan”

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