Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/silubr

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 *silubrą.

Noun

*silubr n

1. silver

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*silubr
Genitive	*silubras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*silubr	*silubru
Accusative	*silubr	*silubru
Genitive	*silubras	*silubrō
Dative	*silubrē	*silubrum
Instrumental	*silubru	*silubrum

Descendants

• Old English: seolfor, seolfer, seolofor, siolfor, siolufr, silofr, sylfor, sylfur — Mercian
  • Middle English: silver, selver, seolver, sulver, sylver
    • English: silver, ☽, ☾ (alchemy)
      • Jamaican Creole: silva
      • → Maori: hiriwa
      • → Zulu: isiliva
    • Scots: silver, siller
• Old Frisian: selover, selver
  • North Frisian: Salwer (Amrum)
  • Saterland Frisian: Sälver
  • West Frisian: sulver
• Old Saxon: siluvar
  • Middle Low German: selver, sulver
    • German Low German: Sülver, Silver
    • Plautdietsch: Selwa
• Old Dutch: silver
  • Middle Dutch: silver
    • Dutch: zilver
      • Afrikaans: silwer
      • Negerhollands: silver, zelva, selvu
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: solfer
      • → Caribbean Javanese: silfer
      • → Loup A: sinibat, chinebat, chinibat
      • → Mahican: sehnpatt, senpett
      • → Munsee: shulpul
      • → Sranan Tongo: sorfu, solfru, sorfru
        • → Saramaccan: sólófu, sóófu
      • → Unami: silpël
    • Limburgish: zèlver
• Old High German: silbar, silabar
  • Middle High German: silber
    • Bavarian: Süber, Suiber

      Cimbrian: silbar

      Mòcheno: silber

    • German: Silber
    • Kölsch: Seleve
    • Luxembourgish: Sëlwer
    • Pennsylvania German: Silwer
    • Vilamovian: zyłwer
    • Yiddish: זילבער (zilber)