Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwōstō

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 *hwōstô.

Noun

*hwōstō m[1]

cough

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hwōstō
Genitive	hwōstini, hwōstan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hwōstō	*hwōstan
Accusative	*hwōstan	*hwōstan
Genitive	hwōstini, hwōstan	*hwōstanō
Dative	hwōstini, hwōstan	*hwōstum
Instrumental	hwōstini, hwōstan	*hwōstum

Descendants

Old English: hwōsta
- Middle English: host
  - English: whoost, hoost
Old Saxon: *hwōsto
- Middle Low German: hôste
Old Dutch: *huosto
- Middle Dutch: hoeste
  - Dutch: hoest
Old High German: huosto
- Middle High German: huoste
  - German: Husten
  - → Yiddish: הוסט (hust)

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwōstō”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwōstō”