Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ubisu

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

Alternative forms

*obisu

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ubiswō.

Noun

*ubisu f^[1]

hall, vestibule, lobby
eaves

Inflection

wō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*ubisu
Genitive	*ubiswā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*ubisu	*ubiswō
Accusative	*ubiswā	*ubiswā
Genitive	*ubiswā	*ubiswō
Dative	*ubiswē	ubiswōm, ubisum
Instrumental	*ubisu	ubiswōm, ubisum

Descendants

Old English: œfis, efis, yfes, *ofes, efes
- Middle English: eves, oves
  - English: eaves, eave
    - ⇒ Middle English: *eves-wall
      - English: eaves-wall
      - Scots: easwas, easle, eazle, aisywaas
Old Frisian: ōse
- North Frisian: ose
- Saterland Frisian: Ouse
- West Frisian: oes
Old Saxon: *ovisa
- Middle Low German: ȫvese, ȫsene, ȫsen, ȫse, ȫze
  - Low German: Öse, Ese
  - ⇒ Middle Low German: ovesval, ȫvesval (“eaves-wall”)
Old Dutch: *uvisa, *ovisa
- Middle Dutch: ōvese, uevese, ōse, oyse, ōsie
  - Dutch: ozie, euzie
  - ⇒ Dutch: ozing
Old High German: obisa, obasa
- Middle High German: obese, obse
  - Bavarian: Obesen (dialectal)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 285: “PWGmc *ubisu”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 285: “PWGmc *ubisu”

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