Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/umbi

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 *umbi.

Preposition

*umbi

1. around [with accusative]

Descendants

• Old English: ymbe, ymb, embe, ymbi, imbe
  • Middle English: umbe, embe
    • Scots: umbe-
• Old Frisian: umbe, ombe
  • Saterland Frisian: uum, ume
  • West Frisian: om
• Old Saxon: umbi
  • Middle Low German: umme
    • Low German: üm, um
    • Plautdietsch: om
• Old Dutch: umbe, umbi
  • Middle Dutch: omme, ombe, om
    • Dutch: om
      • Afrikaans: om
    • Limburgish: ómb, óm
• Old High German: umbi
  • Middle High German: umbe, ump, ümbe, üm
    • Alemannic German: ume, umme
    • Bavarian:
      • Cimbrian: umme
      • Mòcheno: um
    • Central Franconian: öm, em
      • Luxembourgish: ëm
    • German: um, (umb, üm, ümb)
    • Yiddish: אום (um)