Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sī

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 *sī; see Proto-Germanic *iz.

Pronoun

*sī^[1]

she, it

Inflection

Declension of *iʀ (irregular)
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	*iʀ	*sī/si(j)u	*it	*sī/si(j)u	*sī/si(j)u	*sī/si(j)u
accusative	*inā	*sī/si(j)u	*it	*sī/si(j)u	*sī/si(j)u	*sī/si(j)u
genitive	*es	*eʀu	*es	*eʀō	*eʀō	*eʀō
dative	*imai?	*eʀu(i?)	*imai?	*im	*im	*im
instrumental	*?	*?	*?	*?	*?	*?

Alternative forms

*si(j)u

Descendants

Old Frisian: *sie
- West Frisian: sy, sij, se
Old Saxon: sia, sie
- Middle Low German: sê, su, sia
  - Low German: sie
    - Dutch Low Saxon: zee
    - German Low German: se
  - Plautdietsch: see
Old Dutch: siu, sia
- Middle Dutch: si, sie, soe, so
  - Dutch: zij
    - Afrikaans: sy
  - Limburgish: zie
Old High German: siu, si
- Middle High German: siu, si
  - Alemannic German: si
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: zi, si (Luserna), ze
    
    Mòcheno: si
  - German: sie
  - Hunsrik: sie
  - Luxembourgish: si
  - Yiddish: זי (zi)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124: “*sī”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124: “*sī”

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