Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wiʀ
Appearance
Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *wīz.
Pronoun
[edit]*wiʀ[1]
- we (all)
Inflection
[edit]Proto-West Germanic personal pronouns
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: wē, wœ̄ — Northumbrian, wæ, ƿē
- Old Frisian: wī
- Old Saxon: wī
- Old Dutch: wī
- Old High German: wir
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*wiz”