Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/swegru

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 *swegrō.

Noun

*swegru f^[1]

mother-in-law

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*swegru
Genitive	*swegrā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*swegru	*swegrō
Accusative	*swegrā	*swegrā
Genitive	*swegrā	*swegrō
Dative	*swegrē	swegrōm, swegrum
Instrumental	*swegru	swegrōm, swegrum

Descendants

Old English: sweġer
- Middle English: sweȝer
Old Frisian: *sweger, *sweier
- ⇒ Saterland Frisian: Sweegermuur
Old Saxon: *swegar, *swigar
- Middle Low German: swēger
  - German Low German: Sweger, Swegermoder
Old Dutch: *sweger
- Middle Dutch: swēger
  - Dutch: zweger
Old High German: swigar
- Middle High German: swiger
  - German: Schwieger (obsolete)
    - ⇒ German: Schwiegermutter, Schwiegervater, Schwiegertochter, Schwiegersohn
  - Yiddish: שוויגער (shviger)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 212: “PWGmc *swegru”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 212: “PWGmc *swegru”

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