Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/senap

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 sināpi. Parallel borrowing with Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍀𐌹𐍃 (sinapis).

Noun

*senap m

1. mustard

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*senap
Genitive	*senapas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*senap	*senapō, *senapōs
Accusative	*senap	*senapā
Genitive	*senapas	*senapō
Dative	*senapē	*senapum
Instrumental	*senapu	*senapum

Descendants

• Old English: senep, senap, senop, sinop
  • Middle English: senep
    • Scots: sanape
• Old Saxon: *senap
  • Middle Low German: sennep, sennip, senp, semp, senep, sēnap, sēnep, sānip
    • German Low German: Semp
    • → Danish: sennep
      • → Norwegian: sennep
      • → Icelandic: sinnep
    • → Estonian: sinep
    • → Swedish: senap
      • → Finnish: sinappi
    • → Faroese: sinoppur, sinnopur
• Old Dutch: *senap
  • Middle Dutch: senep, sennep
    • Dutch: zennep (dialectal)
• Old High German: senaf
  • Middle High German: sënef, sënif, sënf
    • German: Senf
      • → Macedonian: сенф (senf)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: sȅnf
    • Yiddish: זענעפֿט (zeneft)