Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/persik

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 persicum.

Noun

*persik m

1. peach

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*pirsik
Genitive	*pirsikas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*pirsik	*pirsikō, *pirsikōs
Accusative	*pirsik	*pirsikā
Genitive	*pirsikas	*pirsikō
Dative	*pirsikē	*pirsikum
Instrumental	*pirsiku	*pirsikum

Alternative reconstructions

• *persikkjā, *persikō

Derived terms

• *persikabaum
  • Old Saxon: persikbōm
    • Middle Low German: persikbôm, persekbôm
  • Old Dutch: *persikbōm
    • Middle Dutch: persekeboom, persikeboom, persicboom, persecboom
      • Dutch: perzikboom
  • Old High German: pfersihboum, phersihboum
    • Middle High German: pfersichboum, pfersichpoum, phersichboum
      • German: Pfirsichbaum
• *persikīn

Descendants

• Old English: persoc, persic
  • Middle English: persogʒe
• Old Saxon: *persik, *persika
  • Middle Low German: persik, pêrsik, persek, persike
    • Low German:

      Altmärkisch: Përsch

      Westphalian:

      Westmünsterländisch: Peersick, Peersken, Peerseken, Persik

      East Westphalian: Päsken (Ravensberg)

      South Westphalian: Päärske, Päärseke (Dortmund)

      • → Belarusian: пе́рсік (pjérsik)
      • → Russian: пе́рсик (pérsik)
      • → Ukrainian: пе́рсик (pérsyk)
    • → Old Danish: persic
      • → Danish: fersken
    • → Faroese: ferska
    • → Greenlandic: ferskeni
    • → Icelandic: ferskja
    • → Norwegian: fersken
    • → Swedish: persika
      • → Finnish: persikka
• Old Dutch: *persika
  • Middle Dutch: persike, perseke
    • Dutch: perzik
      • Afrikaans: perske
        • → Phuthi: iperekisi
      • Jersey Dutch: pierkes
        • → Mahican: péněgěsak
      • → Indonesian: persik
      • → Munsee: piilkush (from a dialectal form)
      • → Unami: pilkësh (from a dialectal form)
      • → West Frisian: perzik
• Old High German: pfersih, phersih, phirsih, persih
  • Middle High German: pfersich
    • Alemannic German: Fërsich
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Persch

      Transylvanian Saxon: Piërsch

    • German: Pfirsich
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Pasching

    • Yiddish: פֿערשקע (fershke)