Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krabit

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 Proto-Germanic *krabitaz.

Noun

*krabit m

1. crustacean (crab, lobster, crayfish)

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*krabit
Genitive	*krabitas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*krabit	*krabitō, *krabitōs
Accusative	*krabit	*krabitā
Genitive	*krabitas	*krabitō
Dative	*krabitē	*krabitum
Instrumental	*krabitu	*krabitum

Descendants

• Old Saxon: krevit
  • Middle Low German: krēvet
    • German Low German: Kreeft, Krefft
    • Plautdietsch: Kjräft
    • → Danish: kræft
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kreft
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreft
    • → Old Swedish: krævet, kræveta
      • Swedish: kräfta
• Old Dutch: *crevet
  • Middle Dutch: creft, crēvet, crēeft
    • Dutch: kreeft
      • Afrikaans: kreef
      • Negerhollands: kreeft, greef
      • → Papiamentu: kref, kreeft
    • Limburgish: kreef
    • → Norman: crabette, cravette, crevette (possibly)
      • → French: crevette
• Old High German: krebiz, krebazzo
  • Old High German: crebiz, krëbez, krebz
    • Alemannic German: Chräps
    • German: Krebs
      • → Danish: krebs
      • → German Low German: Krebs
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: kreps
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreps
      • → Saterland Frisian: Krääps
      • → Scanian: krævs
      • → Yiddish: קרעבס (krebs)
    • Luxembourgish: Kriibs
• → Old French: crevice, crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche (either from a diminutive *krabitjō or from Old High German krebiz)
  • Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
    • French: écrevisse
  • → Middle Dutch: crevetse
  • → Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
    • English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)