Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wursti

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

Uncertain; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *werþaną, which would derive it from Indo-European *wr̥t(s)-tis, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”). In this case the original meaning would have been "something twisted". Alternatively from *wr̥s-tis, from the root *wers- (“to mix up”), which would make it "something mixed up, something mangled".

Noun

*wursti f

1. sausage

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wursti
Genitive	*wurstī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wursti	*wurstī
Accusative	*wursti	*wurstī
Genitive	*wurstī	*wurstijō
Dative	*wurstī	*wurstim, *wurstijum
Instrumental	*wurstī	*wurstim, *wurstijum

Descendants

• Old Frisian: *wurst, *worst
  • West Frisian: woarst
• Old Saxon: worst
  • Middle Low German: worst
    • Low German:

      German Low German:

      Plautdietsch: Worscht

    • → Estonian: vorst
• Old Dutch: *wurst, *worst
  • Middle Dutch: worst
    • Dutch: worst
      • Afrikaans: wors
        • → English: wors
      • Jersey Dutch: wârst
      • → Papiamentu: wòrs
      • → Russian: ворса (vorsa)
      • → Sranan Tongo: worst
    • Limburgish: wósj
• Old High German: wurst
  • Middle High German: wurst
    • Alemannic German: Wurscht

      Swabian: Wurscht

      Sathmar Swabian: Wurscht

    • Bavarian: Wurscht, Wuascht
    • Central Franconian: Woosch, Wuersch, Wuerscht, Wuuscht, Woscht, Woeësj, Wursch
      • Luxembourgish: Wuuscht (archaic), Wurscht (influenced by German)
      • Hunsrik: Worst
    • East Central German: Wurscht

      Vilamovian: wiyśt

    • East Franconian: Woschd

      Vogtländisch: Wurschd

    • German: Wurst
      • → English: wurst
      • → French: wurst
      • → German Low German: Wust
      • → Greater Polish: worszta
      • → Kashubian: wòrzta
      • → Saterland Frisian: Wust
    • Rhine Franconian: Wurscht, Worscht

      Pennsylvania German:

    • Yiddish: וווּרשט (vursht)