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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aspō

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From an apparent Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”), though the distribution is limited to northern languages spoken in regions where the tree inhabits. Indo-European cognates include Welsh aethnen, Latvian apse, Lithuanian ēpušė (dialectal ãpušė), Old Prussian abse and Proto-Slavic *opsa (along with its suffixed variants *osìna and Southern *esìka), all meaning “aspen”.[1][2]

Noun

*aspō f[1]

  1. aspen

Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *aspō (ō-stem)
singular plural
nominative *aspō *aspôz
vocative *aspō *aspôz
accusative *aspǭ *aspōz
genitive *aspōz *aspǫ̂
dative *aspōi *aspōmaz
instrumental *aspō *aspōmiz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *aspu
    • Old English: æspe, æsp, æps
      • Middle English: aspe; aspen
    • Old Saxon: *aspa
    • Old Dutch: *aspa, *espa
    • Old High German: aspa
  • Old Norse: ǫsp
    • Icelandic: ösp
    • Faroese: øsp
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: osp; (dialectal) øsp
    • Norwegian Bokmål: osp
    • Swedish: asp
    • Danish: asp
      • Norwegian Bokmål: asp
  • →? Proto-Finnic: *haapa (metathesized from *šapa?) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aspō- ~ *apsō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*opsa; *osìna; *esìka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 378
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