Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/apō

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 *apô.

Noun

*apō m

ape, monkey

Reconstruction notes

The word probably did not originally mean "ape", since Proto-West Germanic speakers probably had never encountered one, but that is the only meaning that is reconstructable from the descendants.

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*apō
Genitive	apini, apan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*apō	*apan
Accusative	*apan	*apan
Genitive	apini, apan	*apanō
Dative	apini, apan	*apum
Instrumental	apini, apan	*apum

Descendants

Old English: apa
- Middle English: ape, eape, aape
  - English: ape
  - Scots: ape, aip
Old Frisian: *apa
- North Frisian: aab (Föhr-Amrum), ååwe (Mooring)
- Saterland Frisian: Oape
- West Frisian: aap
Old Saxon: apo
- Middle Low German: āpe
  - Low German: Ape
  - German Low German: Aap
  - Plautdietsch: Op
Old Dutch: *apo
- Middle Dutch: āpe
  - Dutch: aap
    - Afrikaans: aap
Old High German: affo
- Middle High German: affe
  - Alemannic German: Aff
  - Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: Aff
  - German: Affe
  - Luxembourgish: Af
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Aff
  - Yiddish: אַפֿע (afe)
→ Proto-Slavic: *opъ
- ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *opica (see there for further descendants)

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