Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/krabbô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

An agent noun formation from *krabbōną (“to scratch”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɑb.bɔːː/

Noun

*krabbô m

1. crab

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *krabbô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*krabbô	*krabbaniz
vocative	*krabbô	*krabbaniz
accusative	*krabbanų	*krabbanunz
genitive	*krabbiniz	*krabbanǫ̂
dative	*krabbini	*krabbammaz
instrumental	*krabbinē	*krabbammiz

Related terms

• *kerbaną
• *krabbōną
• *krabitaz
• *krabblōną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *krabbō
  • Old English: crabba
    • Middle English: crabbe
      • Scots: crab, craib
      • English: crab
  • Old Frisian: *krabba
    • North Frisian: kraab
    • Saterland Frisian: Krabbe
    • West Frisian: kraab, krab
  • Old Saxon: *krabbo
    • Middle Low German: krabbe
      • German Low German: Krabbe, Krabb
      • Low German: Krabbe
      • → German: Krabbe
      • → Lower Sorbian: kraba
  • Old Dutch: *crabbo
    • Middle Dutch: crabbe
      • Dutch: krab
        • Afrikaans: krap
      • Limburgish: krab
      • → Walloon: crappe, crape
      • → Picard: crape
  • Old High German: *chrappo, *krappo
    • Middle High German: krappe
      • German: Krappe
      • Luxembourgish: Krabb
• Old Norse: krabbi
  • Icelandic: krabbi
  • Faroese: krabbi
  • Norn: krabbi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: krabbe; (dialectal) krabbi, kræbbe
  • Old Swedish: krabbe
    • Swedish: krabba
  • Danish: krabbe
    • Norwegian Bokmål: krabbe
  • → Old French: crabe
    • Middle French: crabe
      • French: crabe
      • Norman: crabe (Jèrriais)
      • → Romanian: crab
• others:
  • → Latvian: krabis
  • → Lithuanian: krabas
  • → Belarusian: краб (krab)
  • → Russian: краб (krab)
  • → Ukrainian: краб (krab)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кра̏ба

    Latin script: krȁba

  • → Macedonian: крабар (krabar)
  • → Czech: krab
  • → Kashubian: krab, kraba
  • → Polish: krab
  • → Slovak: krab
  • → Lower Sorbian: kraba
  • → Upper Sorbian: kraba
  • → Proto-Finnic:
    • Estonian: krabi
    • Finnish: rapu
    • Ingrian: krapu
    • Votic: krapu