Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wapsu

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 *wapsō.

Noun

*wapsu f^[1]

wasp
Synonym: *waspijā

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wapsu
Genitive	*wapsā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wapsu	*wapsō
Accusative	*wapsā	*wapsā
Genitive	*wapsā	*wapsō
Dative	*wapsē	wapsōm, wapsum
Instrumental	*wapsu	wapsōm, wapsum

Derived terms

*waspijā

Descendants

Old English: wæps, wæsp, wæfs
- Middle English: wasp, wappes, waps, waspe
  - English: wasp, waps (dialectal, chiefly African-American Vernacular and UK) (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: wasp, wesp
Old Frisian: *waps
- Saterland Frisian: Häspe, Gäspe
- West Frisian: waps
Old Saxon: waspa
- Middle Low German: wopse
Old Dutch: wapsa (attested in Latin text as uuapces)
Old High German: wafsa
→ Old French: guespe, vespe, wespe, wapce (partially) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Wespe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 788: “wg. *wab-sō”

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Wespe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 788: “wg. *wab-sō”

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