Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mespilā

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 Latin mespila, mespilum.

Noun

*mespilā f

1. medlar

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mispilā
Genitive	*mispilōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mispilā	*mispilōn
Accusative	*mispilōn	*mispilōn
Genitive	*mispilōn	*mispilōnō
Dative	*mispilōn	*mispilōm, *mispilum
Instrumental	*mispilōn	*mispilōm, *mispilum

Derived terms

• *mespilabaum

Descendants

• Old English: *mespile
  • Middle English: mespile
    • English: mesple
• Old Saxon: mispela
  • Middle Low German: mispel, mispele
    • German Low German: Mispel
    • → Danish: mispel
    • → Finnish: mispeli
• Old Dutch: *mespila, *mispila
  • Middle Dutch: mespele, mispel
    • Dutch: mispel
      • Afrikaans: mispel
• Old High German: mespila, mespil, nespila, nespil, mispila
  • Middle High German: mispel, mëspel, nëspel, mëstel, mistel
    • German: Mispel, Mißpel, Mespel, Meßpel (till later 18th century often), Espel, Hespel, Haspel, Nespel, Nispel, Wispel (regional)
    • → Old Czech: mišpile, mišpule, nyšpule
      • Czech: mišpule, older often nyšpule
    • → Hungarian: naspolya, formerly by region náspolya, naszpolya, nászpolya, noszpolya. lasponya, lásponya, miszpulya, nespolya
    • → Polish: nieszpułka, nieszpułk, nieszpuła, niesplik, myszpuła
    • → Slovak: mišpuľa, dialectally nyšpuľa, nešpuľa
    • → Lower Sorbian: hušpula, rušpula
    • → Upper Sorbian: nyšpula, nyšpla, nyspla, myšpla
  • → Serbo-Croatian: nȅšpula, nȅšpola, mešpula, nespula, nespola, nješpula
  • → Slovene: nẹ̑šplja