Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plōg

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 *plōgaz.

Noun

*plōg m

  1. plough, plow

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *plōg
Genitive *plōgas
Singular Plural
Nominative *plōg *plōgō, *plōgōs
Accusative *plōg *plōgā
Genitive *plōgas *plōgō
Dative *plōgē *plōgum
Instrumental *plōgu *plōgum

Descendants

  • Old English: plōg, plōh
  • Old Frisian: plōch
  • Old Saxon: *plōg
    • Middle Low German: plôg
      • Low German: Ploog
      • Plautdietsch: Pluach, Plüach
  • Old Dutch: *pluog
  • Old High German: phluog, pfluog
    • Middle High German: pfluoc
      • Central Franconian: Plooch, Pluuch (southern Moselle Franconian)
        Hunsrik: Plugh
        Luxembourgish: Plou
      • East Central German:
        Vilamovian: fłüg
      • East Franconian:
      • German: Pflug
      • Rhine Franconian: Plug
  • Medieval Latin: plōvum, ploum[1]
  • Proto-Slavic: *plùgъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Lithuanian: plū̃gas

References

  1. ^ "ploum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)