Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kampijō

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 *kampijan (“to fight, do battle”) +‎ *-jō.

Noun

*kampijō m

1. combat soldier

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kampijō
Genitive	*kampijini, *kampijan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kampijō	*kampijan
Accusative	*kampijan	*kampijan
Genitive	*kampijini, *kampijan	*kampijanō
Dative	*kampijini, *kampijan	*kampijum
Instrumental	*kampijini, *kampijan	*kampijum

Related terms

• *kampijan
• *kampōn

Descendants

• Old English: cempa, cæmpa
  • Middle English: kempe
    • English: kemp; Kemp (surname)
    • Scots: kemp
  • Middle English: cæppe, keppe (merger with Old Norse kappi)
  • → Old Norse: kempa f
    • Icelandic: kempa
    • Faroese: kempa
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjempe, kjempa
    • Middle Swedish: kämpa
      • Swedish: kämpe
• Old Frisian: kempa
• Old Saxon: kempio
  • Middle Low German: kempe
    • → German: Kämpe
    • → Swedish: kämpe
    • → Danish: kjæmpe, kæmpe
      • Norwegian Bokmål: kjempe m or f
• Old Dutch: *kempo
  • Middle Dutch: kempe
• Old High German: kemphio, chemphio, kempho, chempho
  • Middle High German: kempfe
    • German: Kämpfe (obsolete, replaced with the Low German above)
• → Latin: campiō (see there for further descendants)