Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/cedrubaum

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 *cedru (“cedar”) +‎ *baum (“tree”).

Noun

*cedrubaum m

1. cedar tree

   Synonym: *cedru

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*cedrubaum
Genitive	*cedrubaumas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*cedrubaum	*cedrubaumō, *cedrubaumōs
Accusative	*cedrubaum	*cedrubaumā
Genitive	*cedrubaumas	*cedrubaumō
Dative	*cedrubaumē	*cedrubaumum
Instrumental	*cedrubaumu	*cedrubaumum

Descendants

• Old English: ċederbēam, ċeodorbēam
• Old Frisian: *zederbām, *sederbām
  • Saterland Frisian: Tsederboom
  • West Frisian: sederbeam
• Old Saxon: zederbom, zeduarbōm, zedwerbōm, zederboum
  • Middle Low German: sēderbōm, cederbōm, zederbōm, sedewerbōm, sedwerbōm, cedewerbōm, zedwerbōm, zeduarbōm, sedverbōm, seduerbōm
    • Plautdietsch: Zeedaboom
• Old Dutch: cederboum
  • Middle Dutch: cederenboom
    • Dutch: cederboom
      • Afrikaans: sederboom
• Old High German: zēdarboum, cēdarboum
  • Middle High German: zēderboum, cēderboum
    • German: Zederbaum, Zedernbaum
    • Pennsylvania German: Zeedrebaam
    • Yiddish: צעדערבוים (tsederboym)

Further reading

• Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Zeder”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 807
• "zēdarboum" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)