Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/silubr

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 *silubrą.

Noun

*silubr n[1]

silver

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*silubr
Genitive	*silubras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*silubr	*silubru
Accusative	*silubr	*silubru
Genitive	*silubras	*silubrō
Dative	*silubrē	*silubrum
Instrumental	*silubru	*silubrum

Descendants

Old English: seolfor, seolfer, seolofor, siolfor, siolufr, silofr, sylfor; sylfur
- Middle English: silver, selver, seolver, sulver, sylver
  - English: silver
    - Jamaican Creole: silva
    - → Maori: hiriwa
    - → Zulu: isiliva
  - Scots: silver, siller
Old Frisian: selover, selver
- North Frisian: Salwer (Amrum)
- Saterland Frisian: Sälver
- West Frisian: sulver
Old Saxon: siluvar
- Middle Low German: selver, sulver
  - German Low German: Sülver, Silver
  - Plautdietsch: Selwa
Old Dutch: silver
- Middle Dutch: silver
  - Dutch: zilver
    - Afrikaans: silwer
    - Negerhollands: silver, zelva, selvu
    - Skepi Creole Dutch: solfer
    - → Caribbean Javanese: silfer
    - → Loup A: sinibat, chinebat, chinibat
    - → Mahican: sehnpatt, senpett
    - → Munsee: shulpul
    - → Sranan Tongo: sorfu, solfru, sorfru
      - → Saramaccan: sólófu, sóófu
    - → Unami: silpël
  - Limburgish: zèlver
Old High German: silbar, silabar
- Middle High German: silber
  - Bavarian: Süber, Suiber
    Cimbrian: silbar
    Mòcheno: silber
  - German: Silber
  - Kölsch: Seleve
  - Luxembourgish: Sëlwer
  - Pennsylvania German: Silwer
  - Vilamovian: zyłwer
  - Yiddish: זילבער (zilber)

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 329: “PWGmc *silubr”

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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 329: “PWGmc *silubr”