Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gingiberō

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

Borrowed from Late Latin gingiber, from Latin zingiberi.

Noun

*gingiberō m

ginger

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gingiberō
Genitive	gingibirini, gingiberan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gingiberō	*gingiberan
Accusative	*gingiberan	*gingiberan
Genitive	gingibirini, gingiberan	*gingiberanō
Dative	gingibirini, gingiberan	*gingiberum
Instrumental	gingibirini, gingiberan	*gingiberum

Alternative reconstructions

*ingiberō, *gingiberā

Descendants

Old English: gingifer f, gingiber, gingifere
- Middle English: gingivere, gingere, gingivre, gingyver, gynger, gyngere, gyngever, gyngiver, gyngyver, gyngyvyr (contaminated by Old French)
  - English: ginger
    - → Greek: τζίντζερ (tzíntzer)
    - → Japanese: ジンジャー (jinjā)
    - → Maltese: ġinġer
    - → Manx: jinshar
    - → Welsh: sinsir
    - → Zulu: újínja
  - Scots: ginger, ginge
  - → Irish: sinséar
  - → Scottish Gaelic: dinnsear
  - → Manx: jinshar
  - → Welsh: sinsir
Old Saxon: *gingibera, *ingibera
- Middle Low German: ingever, inghever, ingeber, incheber, engever, engewer, engevar, engeber, gengever, gengevar, gengefer, gengwer, gengewer, genckver, genwer, gingeber, gingever, gangeber
  - German Low German:
    Low Prussian: Engfäär
  - Plautdietsch: Enjwa
  - → Danish: ingefær
    - → Faroese: ingifer
    - → Icelandic: engifer
  - → Norwegian: ingefær
  - → Swedish: ingefära
    - → Finnish: inkivääri
Old Dutch: *gingibero
- Middle Dutch: gingebare, gigeberre, gengeber, gingeber, gengevar, ginghebare
  - Dutch: gember
    - Afrikaans: gemmer
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: gembru
    - Jersey Dutch: jäämver
    - → Lokono: sizembri
    - → Papiamentu: ehèmber, gèmber, hember
    - → West Frisian: gimber
Old High German: gingibero, gingiber, ingiber
- Middle High German: ingeber, ingewer, ingwer, gingebere
  - German: Ingwer, Ingber, Imber (dialectal, obsolete)
    - → Estonian: ingver
    - → Latvian: ingvers
    - → Luxembourgish: Ingwer
    - → Polish: imbir, imbier (obsolete), imgbir, ingbier, jęgbir, engbier, imgbier, inbier (Middle Polish)
      - → Belarusian: імбі́р (imbír)
      - → Lithuanian: imbieras
      - → Russian: имби́рь (imbírʹ)
      - → Ukrainian: імби́р (imbýr)
    - → Slovene: īngver, īmber
    - → Lower Sorbian: ingwer
    - → Upper Sorbian: himbjer, ingwer
  - Yiddish: אינגבער (ingber)