Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kirsijā

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 ceresia.

Noun

*kirsijā f

1. cherry

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kirsijā
Genitive	*kirsijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kirsijā	*kirsijōn
Accusative	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōn
Genitive	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōnō
Dative	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōm, *kirsijum
Instrumental	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōm, *kirsijum

Descendants

• Old English: ċirse
• Old Frisian: *tzerse
  • Saterland Frisian: Säärse
• Old Saxon: *kirsa
  • Middle Low German: kerse
    • Dutch Low Saxon: kaars, kaarze
    • German Low German: Kars

      Plautdietsch: Kjoasch

    • → Finnish: kirsikka
    • → Latvian: ķirsis
    • ⇒ Middle Low German: kersebere
      • → Old Norse: *kirsuber
        • Faroese: kirsuber
        • Icelandic: kirsuber
        • Norwegian Bokmål: kirsebær
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: kirsebær
        • Swedish: körsbär
        • Danish: kirsebær
• Old Dutch: *kirsa
  • Middle Dutch: kerse
    • Dutch: kers (see there for further descendants)
    • Limburgish: kèrs, kaes, kees
• Old High German: kirsa, chirsa, kersa, kirs
  • Middle High German: kirse, kërse
    • Alemannic German: Chirsi, Chirschi
    • Bavarian: Kiaschn

      Cimbrian: khèrsch, khèersa (Sette Comuni)

    • Kölsch: Körsche
    • German: Kirsche, Kersche (archaic or dialectal)
      • → Estonian: kirss
    • Luxembourgish: Kiischt, Kiisch
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Hessian: Kesch

      Pennsylvania German: Kasch

    • Vilamovian: kjyś
    • Yiddish: קאַרש (karsh)
• →? Proto-Slavic: *čèršьňa (see there for further descendants)