Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wurpijan

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

Alternative forms

• *werpijan (see Reconstruction notes)

Etymology

Derived from *werpan.

Verb

*wurpijan

1. to throw

Reconstruction notes

This term didn't actually exist in the form *werpijan, as the vowel e did not occur in an umlauting environment. However, due to the lack of definitive Germanic descendants and the fact that several other sources reconstruct this term as such, we have listed *werpijan as an alternative form despite it being unclear how the Proto-West Germanic form should be reconstructed.

Conjugation

Class 1 weak
Infinitive	*wurpijan
1st sg. past	*wurpidā
Infinitive	*wurpijan
Genitive infin.	*wurpijannjas
Dative infin.	*wurpijannjē
Instrum. infin.	*wurpijannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*wurpiju	*wurpidā
2nd singular	*wurpisi	*wurpidēs, *wurpidōs
3rd singular	*wurpiþi	*wurpidē, *wurpidā
1st plural	*wurpijum	*wurpidum
2nd plural	*wurpiþ	*wurpidud
3rd plural	*wurpijanþ	*wurpidun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*wurpijē	*wurpidī
2nd singular	*wurpijēs	*wurpidī
3rd singular	*wurpijē	*wurpidī
1st plural	*wurpijēm	*wurpidīm
2nd plural	*wurpijēþ	*wurpidīd
3rd plural	*wurpijēn	*wurpidīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*wurpi
Plural	*wurpiþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*wurpijandī	*wurpid

Descendants

• Old English: wyrpan (“to throw”)
• Old High German: *wurfen
  • Middle High German: wurfen
• → Medieval Latin: werpiō, worpiō, guerpiō, gurpiō [723 CE, Saint-Omer, France] (see there for further descendants)