Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/saipā

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 *saipǭ.

Noun

*saipā f

1. soap
2. resin

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*saipā
Genitive	*saipōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*saipā	*saipōn
Accusative	*saipōn	*saipōn
Genitive	*saipōn	*saipōnō
Dative	*saipōn	*saipōm, *saipum
Instrumental	*saipōn	*saipōm, *saipum

Descendants

• Old English: sāpe
  • Middle English: sope, sape
    • English: soap (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: saip, sape
    • → Middle Irish: sóp
    • → Old Norse: sápa
      • Icelandic: sápa
      • Faroese: sápa
      • Norwegian: såpa, såpe
        • → Danish: såpe
          • Norwegian Bokmål: såpe
      • Old Swedish: sāpa
        • Swedish: såpa
          • → Finnish: suopa, soopa
• Old Frisian: *sēpe
  • Saterland Frisian: Seepe
  • West Frisian: sjippe
• Old Saxon: *sēpa
  • Middle Low German: sêpe, seipe
    • German Low German: Seep
    • Dutch Low Saxon: ziepe, zaip, zaipe, zeeip, zepe, zeip, ziep, zaibe, zeep
    • → Estonian: seep
    • → Danish: sæbe
      • Norwegian Bokmål: sæbe, sæpe, sepe
    • → Latvian: ziepes
• Old Dutch: *sēpa, *seipa
  • Middle Dutch: sêpe, seipe
    • Dutch: zeep
      • Afrikaans: seep (see there for further descendants)
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: sepu
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: sepu
        • → Akawaio: seepoo, sawana
        • → Pemon: seepoo, sawana
      • → Lokono: sêpo
    • Limburgish: zeip
• Old High German: seipfa, seiffa, seifa
  • Middle High German: seife
    • Alemannic German: Seif, Seife, Seifi, Seipfe, Soapfe

      Swabian: Soif

    • Bavarian: Saf, Soaffa, Soaf
    • Central Franconian: Seef, Sääf, Seif

      Hunsrik: Seif

      Luxembourgish: Seef

    • East Central German:

      Vilamovian: zaof

    • East Franconian: Saafe
    • German: Seife
    • Rhine Franconian: Saaf, Saaif, Sääf, Sääif, Seef

      Frankfurterisch: [saːf]

      Pennsylvania German: Seef

    • Yiddish: זייף (zeyf)