Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dag

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 *dagaz.

Noun

*dag m^[1]

day

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*dag
Genitive	*dagas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*dag	dagō, dagōs
Accusative	*dag	*dagā
Genitive	*dagas	*dagō
Dative	*dagē	*dagum
Instrumental	*dagu	*dagum

Derived terms

*hiu dagu

Descendants

Old English: dæġ, deġ — Mercian, Kentish, deag, dæiġ, daig, dag, daġ
- Middle English: day, dai, dæi, dey, daȝ, dæȝ, dei, daye, daȝȝ, daȝh, daiȝ, *dah
  - English: day
  - Scots: day
  - Yola: die, dei, dey, daie
Old Frisian: dei, dī
- North Frisian: däi
  Föhr-Amrum: dai
- Saterland Frisian: Dai
- West Frisian: dei
Old Saxon: dag
- Middle Low German: dach
  - Low German: Dag
    - Dutch Low Saxon: dag
    - German Low German: Dag
      Hamburgisch: Dag
      Westphalian:
      Lippisch: Dag
      Ravensbergisch: Dach
      Sauerländisch: Dag, Dāg
      Westmünsterländisch: Dagg
  - Plautdietsch: Dach
Old Dutch: dag
- Middle Dutch: dach
  - Dutch: dag, dagge, dagh (obsolete)
    - Afrikaans: dag
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: daka
    - Jersey Dutch: dâx
    - Negerhollands: dag, dak
      - → Virgin Islands Creole: dak (archaic)
    - Petjo: dah
    - Skepi Creole Dutch: dak, dagka
    - → Saramaccan: dáka
  - Limburgish: daag
  - West Flemish: dag
  - Zealandic: dag
Old High German: tag, tac, tak, dac, *dag — northern
- Middle High German: tac, tag, dach
  - Alemannic German: Tag
    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)
    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg
    Swabian: Dag
  - Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch
    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage
    Mòcheno: ta
    Udinese: tach, ti
  - Central Franconian: Daach
    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)
  - East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German: Dag
  - German: Tag
    Esperanto: tago
  - Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  - Rhine Franconian: Tach
    Pennsylvania German: Daag
  - Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
  - Vilamovian: taog
  - Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 114: “*dag”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 114: “*dag”

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