Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wiʀ
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wīz.
Pronoun
edit*wiʀ[1]
- we (all)
Inflection
editProto-West Germanic personal pronouns
Descendants
edit- Old English: wē, wœ̄ — Northumbrian, wæ, ƿē
- Old Frisian: wī
- Old Saxon: wī
- Old Dutch: wī
- Old High German: wir
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*wiz”