Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/treuwu

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 *trewwō.

Noun

*treuwu f

1. fidelity, pledge

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*treuwu
Genitive	*treuwā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*treuwu	*treuwō
Accusative	*treuwā	*treuwā
Genitive	*treuwā	*treuwō
Dative	*treuwē	*treuwōm, *treuwum
Instrumental	*treuwu	*treuwōm, *treuwum

Descendants

• Old English: trēow, trȳw
  • Middle English: trewe, truw, tru
    • Scots: trew, trewe
    • English: true
• Old Frisian: triōwe, triūwe, trouwe
  • Saterland Frisian: Trjoue, Tjoue
  • West Frisian: trou
• Old Saxon: treuwa
  • Middle Low German: truwe, trouwe
    • German Low German: Troo
    • Low German: Troue
    • → Old Norse: trú
      • Icelandic: trú
      • Faroese: trúgv
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: tru
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: tru
      • Swedish: tro
      • Danish: tro
        • Norwegian Bokmål: tro
• Old Dutch: triuwa
  • Middle Dutch: trouwe, trūwe
    • Dutch: trouw
      • Afrikaans: trou
• Old High German: triuwa, trūwa, trūa
  • Middle High German: triuwe
    • German: Treue
    • Luxembourgish: Trei
• → Vulgar Latin: *trewa
  • Old French: triwe, trive, trieve
    • Middle French: trieve
      • French: trêve
  • Occitan: treva, trev
  • Medieval Latin: trewa