Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wursti

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

Uncertain; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *werþaną, which would derive it from Indo-European *wr̥t(s)-tis, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”). In this case the original meaning would have been "something twisted".[1] Alternatively from *wr̥s-tis, from the root *wers- (“to mix up”), which would make it "something mixed up, something mangled". (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*wursti f

  1. sausage

Inflection

i-stem
Singular
Nominative *wursti
Genitive *wurstī
Singular Plural
Nominative *wursti *wurstī
Accusative *wursti *wurstī
Genitive *wurstī *wurstijō
Dative *wurstī *wurstim, *wurstijum
Instrumental *wurstī *wurstim, *wurstijum

Descendants

  • Old Frisian: *wurst, *worst
  • Old Saxon: worst
  • Old Dutch: *wurst, *worst
    • Middle Dutch: worst
      • Dutch: worst
        • Afrikaans: wors
        • Jersey Dutch: wârst
        • → Papiamentu: wòrs
        • → Russian: ворса (vorsa)
        • → Sranan Tongo: worst
      • Limburgish: wósj
  • Old High German: wurst

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*werþan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 581-2: “*wursti-”
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